New Pope

[conuly]

What we know:

He's not as photogenic as the previous one, way more photogenic than the one before.

He's an American (from Chicago) with Peruvian citizenship after having lived there many years.

He chewed out JD Vance that one time for being completely and utterly wrong and heartless.

He's about as progressive as we can hope for from Catholic hierarchies - no dramatic rebound to traditionalism, anyway.

He wasn't the bookies' favorite choice, so if you bet on him you made serious cash.

Comments

[ioplokon]

At least we all got to learn there is a man whose name is Pizzaballa.

[conuly]

Yes!

[altamira16]

With the new pope being from Chicago, do you think he is going to argue with them about what "pizza" really means?

[conuly]

He's been in Peru the last few decades, so....

[moxie_man]

The funniest comment I've seen elsewhere so far: Any idea what deep dish communion wafers taste like?

[conuly]

Most likely the same as all the other ones, once they've transubstantiated.

[chanter1944]

Wait, that was real? That wasn't my mother making a joke? Oh my goodness *laughs!*

[spiralsheep]

"He's about as progressive as we can hope for from Catholic hierarchies - no dramatic rebound to traditionalism, anyway.
He wasn't the bookies' favorite choice, so if you bet on him you made serious cash."

Thank you for sharing the important news so I don't have to digest waffle. :-)

[conuly]

No probs!

[jessie_c]

He's still as homophobic and transphobic as any other senior Catholic, so there's two strikes against him. He also didn't investigate sexual abuses, so in that way he's also a pretty typical member of the world's largest pedophile ring.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[conuly]

Yeah, well, I didn’t expect better.

[sabotabby]

Goddamn it I bet on Pizzaballa.

[conuly]

There was a 60 to 1 return on the correct bet! Some dude walked away with 60k.

[adafrog]

I was wondering about the bookies.

[conuly]

I'm sure they all made out like bandits.

[crystalpyramid]

My students were dismayed about his positions on women's and LGBTQ issues, but I see this as the Catholic Church trying to step up in defense of the largest group being marginalized the most. I think we're going to get a wave of really ugly anti-Catholic sentiment from MAGAs but maybe it'll tip enough people back towards the light.

[conuly]

Yeah, I mean... we can only get our hopes up so much for the literal patriarchy that is the Catholic Church.

[silveradept]

We can hope that he will turn out more progressive than reactionary, but if he stays a Catholic on most things, he won't move on the things the Church really should move on.

[conuly]

I think remaining a Catholic is, for some reason, a core job requirement.

[silveradept]

Yeah, it is, but there's Catholics and there's Catholics, you know?