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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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606 points saikatsg | 2 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ralfd ◴[08 May 25 18:25 UTC] No.43929524[source]▶
Is Pope Leo eligible to be voted President of the United States?
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mjirv ◴[08 May 25 18:25 UTC] No.43929534[source]▶
sure, why not?
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9dev ◴[08 May 25 18:36 UTC] No.43929670[source]▶
Because he is the head of a foreign nation, and will hold that office till death. You cannot be head of multiple nations at once.
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1. fernandopj ◴[08 May 25 18:51 UTC] No.43929881[source]▶
If you "relax" your notion of what is a "nation", even POTUS is at fault at this rule - USA has states (50), territories (5), unhabited territories (9), district (1), and a lot of extra-continental bases and even disputed territories. [0]

I believe USA also claims land around any Apollo device at the Moon. [no source]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

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2. madcaptenor ◴[08 May 25 19:13 UTC] No.43930152[source]▶
If we're talking about claims to the moon, the Bishop of Orlando is Bishop of the Moon, because the Apollo missions took off from Cape Canaveral, in the Diocese of Orlando.