The first American Pope

[Beemerguy53]

My wife said she read that he has issues with current American political ideas. We hope for the best.

He believes in following the teachings and philosophy of Christ. His first utterance as Pope was a wish for peace upon all the world's people. I can't find fault with that...

 

[Beemerguy53]

...needs to update the Popemobile, maybe some nice rims, a lift kit, and some fuzzy dice

Being a native of Chicago, he just might go for that!

 

[Golddollar]

Among other aspects of his background, "Prevost speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, and can read Latin and German."

I admire people who are effectively multilingual. I always wonder how they keep all the languages straight. I always felt pretty good when I could make the French Canadians in Quebec understand my attempts at speaking French.

 

[rwsmith]

THAT was UNEXPECTED! I remember when if the candidate wasn't Italian, he wasn't going to be Pope. The they had a Pole, an Argentinian and an......AMERICAN!

 

[rwsmith]

From the South Side and loves those fancy clothes, just like LeRoy Brown

Well, he's going to have some duds that would knock their socks off.

 

[dockmurgw]

I watched the announcement and celebration from start to finish. One thing that really stood out was the crowd, particularly how they conducted themselves. There were tens of thousands of celebrating people packed into that space. When they left in an orderly fashion, you would be hard pressed to find an empty gum wrapper on the ground. Try that here with a much smaller crowd and it would take an army to clean out the mess, burning cars and feral mutts in handcuffs...then a year to rebuild it.

 

[LEGION12]

 

[francoisallais]

Habemus Papam
We have the Pope
Robert Francis Prevost
LEONE XIV
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Symbole of the melting pot that is USA, with his father's origin from France, Normandie and mother's origin from Spane... But a long Time ago...

 

[GBLittle]

He's actually a Chicago White Sox fan. I suppose the Papacy should favor underdogs.

Bryan

I heard the Pope rules and regulations handbook allows him to be a fan of unlimited teams

 

[PCH]

It's just a title, although it's also a very "political" one when it comes down to it. Being raised as a Southern Baptist, I find "Pope worship" difficult to understand. He's a man with a lot of political power for sure,.........but he's still just a man in a very high ranking position.

I pray that he turns out to he a great leader for the Catholic faithful.

The crowd was clearly jubilant and happy but Catholics do not "worship" the pope.

 

[ACORN]

It's just a title, although it's also a very "political" one when it comes down to it. Being raised as a Southern Baptist, I find "Pope worship" difficult to understand. He's a man with a lot of political power for sure,.........but he's still just a man in a very high ranking position.

I pray that he turns out to he a great leader for the Catholic faithful.

Not to be argumentative, but as a Catholic I never “worshipped the pope” and no one I know did.
He is respected as our leader here on Earth and Gods representative.
He’s like the Supreme Court to Catholics.
What he says, goes as far as our faith

 

[PCH]

Symbole of the melting pot that is USA, with his father's origin from France, Normandie and mother's origin from Spane... But a long Time ago...

Et un nom tres Francais. (je m'excuse pour le manque de cedille)

 

[PCH]

Not to be argumentative, but as a Catholic I never “worshipped the pope” and no one I know did.
He is respected as our leader here on Earth and Gods representative.
He’s like the Supreme Court dog Catholics.
What he says, goes as far as our faith

I just responded to the same post. There is some misunderstanding. The pope is never worshipped.

 

[PCH]

No surprise there. The Church seems to have become very anti-gun in recent decades...

I don't think there are many cardinals who are pro...Or for that matter other religious leaders in the Catholic church.

 

[kraynky]

"Worshipped" was a poor choice of words on my part. My apologies gentleman.

 

[ACORN]

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Gots to get one of those

 

[taz666]

Back in the day there was a lot of corn and onion fields between Comiskey Park and Dolton, Il

 

[moosedog]

As a conservative Catholic he is a disappointment.
Stick to the Bible, not politics.

 

[Onomea]

Re his ancestral origins, news articles yesterday said that he has Creole ancestors from New Orleans, too.

 

[Revelation]

As a conservative Catholic he is a disappointment.
Stick to the Bible, not politics.

Amen!