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

> "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...

For what it’s worth, I was just reading that Leo wasn’t seen as “completely” American due to his many years in Peru — he’s even a citizen. Take that as you will.

I think it was Aristotle who said "Give me a child until his mid-twenties, and I will give you a complete American."

even as a joke of Aristotle living 2,000 years before the United States existed, I don't get the comedic affect

It's a play on the popular quote "Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man", attributed to Aristotle