like i said, i feel like Pope Leo was the Curia's way of basically picking Lib JPII, primarily because they knew immigration and America would be flashpoints
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sep 1, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It's also a good time to remind people that the Church has its own internal politics that doesn't cleanly map onto contemporary US politics.
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 pm • 23 0 • view
He’s sort of everyone’s pope. He’s both an American and a Peruvian citizen, he has Creole ancestry, he’s White Sox fan, he supports the Ukrainians etc. And the people who don’t like him seem to be the reactionary Nazi set. 🤷🏻♂️
sep 1, 2025, 2:18 pm • 6 0 • view
There was nothing lib about JPII, quite the opposite. Francis & Leo have restored my faith
sep 1, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
The fact that he’s from the States but spent so much of his career in South America far away from his home country’s conservative clergy is a very telling aspect of his biography
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 pm • 47 1 • view
Also I think Leo being elected tells us that there will probably never be an Italian pope in our lifetimes
sep 1, 2025, 2:08 pm • 27 1 • view
If things worked out fairly there wouldn't be an Italian Pope until like the year 3200
sep 1, 2025, 2:20 pm • 12 0 • view