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

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606 points saikatsg | 4 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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afavour ◴[08 May 25 17:54 UTC] No.43929124[source]▶
> "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-c...

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1. Calwestjobs ◴[08 May 25 20:05 UTC] No.43930735[source]▶
Great symbol was - every cardinal standing on balconies with/besides him.

No media covered / decoded what that gesture signifies.

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2. dragonwriter ◴[08 May 25 20:25 UTC] No.43930925[source]▶
It symbolizes the unity of the Church (and the College of Cardinals specifically) with and supporting the new Pope; its not exactly opaque.
3. echoangle ◴[08 May 25 20:27 UTC] No.43930951[source]▶
Is that unusual?
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4. dragonwriter ◴[08 May 25 20:43 UTC] No.43931113[source]▶
No, its a normal part of the process mentioned briefly (but not explained, perhaps because the symbolism is... really exactly what it seems on the surface) in most of the “what will happen with a new Pope” stories.