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.

[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. :-)

[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.

[sabotabby]

Goddamn it I bet on Pizzaballa.

[adafrog]

I was wondering about the bookies.

[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.

[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.