The fact that there's zero daylight between "pope they picked" and "only pope they would've picked if JD Vance really did kill the previous pope" is kind of interesting.
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God probably called Francis home because he realized the person best suited to this moment would be some motherfucker from Chicago named Leo who is so pure that he hasn’t even called in a favor for the White Sox.
The fact they specifically picked a guy who seems to be a direct response to Trump, Vance, and the "adult American right-wing Catholic convert" phenomenon means I'm chalking up The Papacy as another election Trump lost for the global Right by getting reelected.
Funniest thing about all this is they picked a guy that has actual conservative right-wing views as opposed to whatever type of nazi republicans became.
They all just took over and tainted meaning of normal words. Pope calling for treating people with respect of a human being is somehow "woke" now.
The significance the name LEO and why MAGA is furious
“The director of the Holy See told reporters Thursday that the name is a "direct reference to Leo XIII," the last pope to take the name Leo was a founding figure of the Catholic #socialjustice tradition.
It was formative for me in Catholic school in working-class shithole England in the late 80s to have Joan Lingard's "Across the Barricades" (1972) taught by a young trainee teacher from NI who spelled out all the sectarian nuances as a kind of explanation for why he was here and not there.
Thank you for the book title! I read it at school in the 80’s and I’ve thought about it often but could never remember the name. And loving the Derry Girls reference
The deep lore about that book (it is a good book) is that I was the only one in my class who read "Catriona" as Catri-ona and not Katrina and I don't know to this very day decades on if I got it right.
Hah I probably read it the same way too! I think it took until my late teens for me to realise there’s a difference between the spelling and pronunciation of a lot of Irish names.
With the organo-pope-antipope pair, together they can form a quadripope. Apparently it all becomes very straight forward if you use the new leometric calculus.
Just think, we now know that there are at least two things JD Vance can’t be trusted with: Popes and sofas 🛋️. That’s an unusual combination in the game of Vice President bingo.
This pope is still pretty young and grew up in Chicago; he could probably take JD Vance in a street fight. In other news, I have created a new way to get millions of people interested in church again.
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G-d hates the White Sox.
They all just took over and tainted meaning of normal words. Pope calling for treating people with respect of a human being is somehow "woke" now.
That’s the Chicago Way.
“The director of the Holy See told reporters Thursday that the name is a "direct reference to Leo XIII," the last pope to take the name Leo was a founding figure of the Catholic #socialjustice tradition.
https://www.rawstory.com/laura-loomer-pope/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kevin_and_Sadie_series
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