At least it wasn't the American Cardinal Burke, the Certified Trumper.

I don't know much about this guy, but sounds like they could have made a much worse choice.

This new Pope wasn't even on the betting odds radar... will be interesting to learn why they picked him.

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They at least tend to try to live the Way that Jesus taught, which was loving others. And not just family, friends, and neighbors. Loving the immigrants, strangers, foreigners... the poor and sick is as Godly as one can get in both the OT and the New.

Israel was told after their 400 year captivity that they should always remember what it was like to be the slave, the foreigner, the immigrant, and to treat people the don't know as if they did.

This was a well understood 11th Commandment in the OT, and integral to the NT teachings.

Which MAGA has no clue about whatsoever.

Tor

He may have grabbed up poppaleo.com.

Right-Wingers FURIOUS About NEW POPE.
Loomer ATTACKS "Pam Blondie."

VATICAN CITY " In Italy he's known as the Latin Yankee.

Robert Francis Prevost, anointed Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, is the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church's history.

But Vatican observers will quickly tell you that he's much more than that: a worldly clergyman as Latin American as he is North American, and a potential bridge builder between two increasingly distant Catholic worlds.

"He's like a dual passport holder, he's the perfect pontiff for the present moment," said Miles Pattenden, papal historian and lecturer at Oxford University.

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