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

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606 points saikatsg | 3 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.477s | source
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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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echelon ◴[08 May 25 18:04 UTC] No.43929266[source]▶
To placate or appeal to the current American leadership?

What's the desired outcome? European, NATO, or Ukrainian security guarantees?

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register ◴[08 May 25 18:16 UTC] No.43929424[source]▶
To exert political pressure on the current American leadership by influencing the masses and achieve the objectives of the Catholic Church? Have you forgotten what happened with Wojtyła and Solidarność?
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progbits ◴[08 May 25 19:21 UTC] No.43930253[source]▶
Current USA leadership is already taking actions well aligned with the church (such as stripping rights from women, homosexuals).
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1. BirAdam ◴[08 May 25 20:06 UTC] No.43930744[source]▶
While the Church is conservative in some ways people dislike it also advocates things like peace, ending capital punishment, and nondescrimination based upon race. In my home city, the Church was the only place that wasn’t racist. For my entire life, the Church has been the only place in America with a majority that didn’t want to bomb poor brown people all over the planet. In modern America, not wanting to bomb people is… umm… foreign to both sides of the political spectrum.
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2. EasyMark ◴[08 May 25 23:27 UTC] No.43932364[source]▶
Maybe the Roman Catholic Church* is that way. Evangelicals are not. They are for whatever their crazy leaders want, including blowing up brown people whenever they get in the way or cross borders. Also counting fascism as family values.
3. grg0 ◴[09 May 25 01:55 UTC] No.43933138[source]▶
Yeah, peace on their own terms and ideology.