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

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606 points saikatsg | 6 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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I_am_tiberius ◴[08 May 25 17:57 UTC] No.43929176[source]▶
I strongly believe the American choice was a strategic decision made by a group of highly intelligent individuals.
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axus ◴[08 May 25 18:07 UTC] No.43929297[source]▶
They picked an American, who actually lived and worked in Peru, and not archbishop of New York that Trump suggested.
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1. jsnider3 ◴[08 May 25 19:52 UTC] No.43930604[source]▶
If they want someone who can effectively oppose Trump, why would they pick someone he suggested?
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2. amelius ◴[08 May 25 21:44 UTC] No.43931660[source]▶
What did any pope actually do to oppose anybody?
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3. niij ◴[09 May 25 02:06 UTC] No.43933188[source]▶
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy
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4. I-M-S ◴[09 May 25 02:25 UTC] No.43933276{3}[source]▶
I believe the question implied "in living memory". Popes notoriously don't directly speak up even against atrocities such as genocides, let alone act on it (with levers that are most certainly in their control, such as excommunications).
5. gitaarik ◴[09 May 25 05:27 UTC] No.43934034[source]▶
Didn't Trump suggest someone from NYC?
6. gambiting ◴[09 May 25 07:09 UTC] No.43934491[source]▶
Pope John Paul II was a crucial figure in the fall of communism in Poland, even though he never opposed the state directly - just the fact that he was Polish and that the state couldn't censor his speeches and visits and demonstrated to the deeply religious nation that there is a path outside of the the one dictated by the state that is credited with a significant contribution to the forces that eventually led to the events of 1989.