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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: 0.413s | source
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blensor ◴[08 May 25 17:02 UTC] No.43928317[source]▶
I wonder if there is any other event in recent history that is communicated as quickly to as many people as the fact that a new pope has been elected.

I was out on the streets when the church bells started ringing here in Vienna as must have all around the globe where there are catholic churches

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dralley ◴[09 May 25 01:30 UTC] No.43933025[source]▶
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1. blensor ◴[09 May 25 06:00 UTC] No.43934178[source]▶
I think that gets close since you can hear them from the reaction around you, but I don't think it's a equally distributed. You may have regions where the fans are very vocal but you also have a lot of regions where people don't care all that much especially if you are in a region that got eliminated in an early round
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2. gambiting ◴[09 May 25 06:57 UTC] No.43934430[source]▶
I'm in the UK and you simply didn't have that kind of reaction because Anglican church does not care about the pope. I asked my friend group if they've heard there was a new pope elected and their reaction was "what happened to the last one?".

It was on the news but there were no bells ringing etc. Same as in your football example I suppose.