Lemme know if you need an absolution. I’ll put in a word

Congrats?

Glad to see everyone else finally realized it.

My kid just texted me saying we'll do a few Handshakes in his honor tonight.

Thanks! Appreciate it.

Go and sin no more.

So, hopefully that’s a possibility.

When I heard Robertum, I was worried Sarah got elected.

In 2000, Prevost allowed Father James Ray, an Augustinian priest, to reside at St. John Stone Friary in Chicago. Ray had been suspended from public ministry since 1991 due to credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors. Although the priory was close to a Catholic elementary school, Prevost did not notify the school administration about Ray. The Augustinians noted that Ray was assigned a monitor while at St. John Stone. Ray was moved to a different residence in 2002 when the US Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted stricter rules for handling priests accused of abusing minors.[12][13][a]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

I’ll stay away from all of them

One sin does not cast judgment on the 2,000 year old Church that Jesus has built (Matthew 16:18) across six continents, or on its 1.2 billion faithful. Only God/Jah is perfect, not humans. Jesus came for sinners, not the righteous. Even Pope Francis went to confession at least once a week.
Good news about the Catholic Church: the American Council of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities have each filed suits against this government's abuse of the poor -- so at least there's that.

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

why this history is being ignored.

Really works for the poor and marginalized, wants everyone to have a voice.

MAGA will dub him Pope Woke the 1st.

I hope a lot of things, like he calls out the orange menace and all who worship him.

I was hoping this would be the Lean of the latest elected. We need all the good that can be mustered up.

word is that he's a humble and kind man in the mode of Francis.

Supposedly the "least American" of the American Cardinals and Bishops, so that sounds positive too.

That this is a surprise is also encouraging. Leo being chosen is apparently a nod to social teachings that respect the poor and meek.

And came out in simple white robes with a red stole. Already won points in my book

to Trump and other authoritarians who have turned their back on all but the oligarchy while lacking any and all compassion for the poor.

He may be from the US, but his roots include a lot of time in Latin America--just as with Francis.

Everything about this feels intentional and I'm here for it.

One that Dump cannot touch.

Am from a large Catholic family in Chicago, and they are in pure disbelief. This guy wasn't on anyone's radar.

Family's going nuts.

Chicago's one of the most Catholic city in America - if not the most - mainly due to large immigrant communities in the late 19th and early 20th Century starting with Irish, Italian, Polish, and German Catholics. It has maintained that character through Latino migration and immigration in recent decades. For example, my childhood parish in south suburban Cook County was mainly south side Irish Catholic when I grew up, but the last time I was there for regular Mass about ten years ago, the parishioners were largely Latino.

To say they are pumped is an understatement.

He seems like a good person. This is some of the best news we've had in a while.

the reich-wing US church.

At least he's got that going for him. Don't know much about him, otherwise, since I ran away as fast as I could from the Catholic Church, and religion, in general, decades ago...

like me. We usually are Sox fans!

…as they don’t have a prayer of winning anytime soon.

DA Bears?

So will deep dish pizza be used for communion now?

Come on, now. He's not a tourist.

I think it could well impact American Catholics to move toward the more empathetic side of Christianity!

JD is merely leaking/oozing.

No ketchup on the hot dogs at the Vatican concessions!

Give the boys in the basement a few more hours, and we'll find out he was a founding member of a dog-fighting ring, or the mastermind behind the Antwerp Diamond Heist.

I dunno a thing about the guy. A think there are about seventeen of us worldwide who don't know a thing about the guy.

It’s going down like a lead balloon over in Freeperville.

They can mind their own business.

... effectuate a Papal Decree making every U.S. Catholic who voted for the Turd say 500 "Lord's Prayers;" 250 "Hail Mary Prayers;" and, devote and give 150 hours of Community Service in hospitals; nursing homes; and/or Food Banks caring for the sick, the elderly and feeding the hungry.

JD Vance.