That may be true for a different reason. The Vatican may have selected Prevost because he’s anti-MAGA, but blocking some of Trump’s bleating by having chosen an American.
Someone pointed out to me it might be a way to try and court back the Catholics in the US. Many of them haven’t always been in sync with the pope in recent years.
The Pope really needs to force the retirement of some of the more reactionary cardinals and archbishops in the US, who openly defied Francis in some cases.
I think they still have some reticence, but the man has spent the last like 20 something years out of the US and holds dual citizenship. He’s the antithesis of someone trump would want.
I meant he has so destroyed the international standing of the US that the College of Cardinals don’t see American influence as being an issue any longer.
So Trump was responsible for Pope Leo, just not in the way he wants to be.
I’ve said Trump was responsible before.
So if the cardinals had issues with American dominance before, and now they don’t, there’s really only one conclusion we can draw from that…
That may be true for a different reason. The Vatican may have selected Prevost because he’s anti-MAGA, but blocking some of Trump’s bleating by having chosen an American.
Someone pointed out to me it might be a way to try and court back the Catholics in the US. Many of them haven’t always been in sync with the pope in recent years.
The Pope really needs to force the retirement of some of the more reactionary cardinals and archbishops in the US, who openly defied Francis in some cases.
I think they still have some reticence, but the man has spent the last like 20 something years out of the US and holds dual citizenship. He’s the antithesis of someone trump would want.
I didn’t mean Trump wanted Leo.
I meant he has so destroyed the international standing of the US that the College of Cardinals don’t see American influence as being an issue any longer.
So Trump was responsible for Pope Leo, just not in the way he wants to be.
I suspect picking a non-MAGA American was a deliberate choice.
Lmao, fuck when you put it like that, yeah that makes sense. Dammit I hate this timeline.
That they’re hard up for eligible cardinals?