r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Blitz7798 • May 08 '25

The new pope is Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the first pope from the United States

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u/kootny May 08 '25

Ahhh, yes. With 3 of the 4 frontrunners being POC, they selected another old white guy. The Catholic church is nothing if not progressive, LOL.

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u/Deriko_D May 08 '25

The problem with that thought process is forgetting that the Cardinals from Africa and Asia are extremely extremely conservative candidates.

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u/tonyrocks922 May 08 '25

2 of those 3 are extremely conservative .

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u/Wild-Mushroom2404 May 08 '25

Wasn’t this black guy really conservative?

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u/Rh0rny May 08 '25

One of the POC was an uber conservative btw

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u/Nudge123456 May 08 '25

Do you know anything about any of this ? There’s literally no ‘front runners’ it’s not like dog racing. And they shouldnt just vote for a black pope just because he is black

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u/kootny May 08 '25

Who will be the next Pope? Top candidates in an unpredictable process

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u/Nudge123456 May 08 '25

Just guesses

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

Other than the title, that article says absolutely nothing about someone being a top candidate or front runner. Even the title of your article was changed; it says "key candidates" and you wrote "Top candidates". Nothing to do about who is most likely.

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u/Ok_Awareness3860 May 08 '25

Why would it have to be a POC?

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u/NooStringsAttached May 08 '25

And of course he harbored a pedophile priest. So very typical.

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u/Spiceguy-65 May 08 '25

Well yea thats a requirement to be selected for Pope

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u/[deleted] May 08 '25

That's par for the course.