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This also means Trump doesn’t need to worry about a 25% tariff on foreign religions.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Damn, Vatican, read the room, mate

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-cardinal-robert-prevost/

Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty. This week, however, he was at the Vatican with hundreds of other prelates as the cardinal electors gather for the conclave to choose a new pontiff.

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"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

so.. the u.s. circling the drain of democracy is what finally got them a turn.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 17 points 1 day ago

We needed an American religious figure on the world stage to take on the anti-christ for the final boss battles

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This was the opinion of one cardinal, not like it was an official stance of the church.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think he's a cardinal, just a bishop. But I also don't really know how the Catholic church works

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yea but I also think he's just not a cardinal

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

OK? It's still telling.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was gonna post the same quote - quite the subtle dig.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro, we can send Vance to meet this guy.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe that's why Vance met Francis.

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago

Who knew the Angel of Death would wear eyeliner?