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afavour ◴[] 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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bbor ◴[] No.43929272[source]
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.
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mvieira38 ◴[] No.43930642[source]
Americans will say they are Italian because their great grandma ate spaghetti once, but God forbid someone is American because he was born there
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GuB-42 ◴[] No.43931943[source]
GP is right, he is not "completely" American in the sense that he is both American and Peruvian because of his dual citizenship. He also spent most of his life outside of the USA.

Which I think is a great thing as the representative of a worldwide religion. Born in the US, an English-speaking country in North America, lived in Peru, a Spanish-speaking country in the South America, then in Italy, an Italian-speaking country in Europe.

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froh ◴[] No.43932194[source]
he is completely US American because he was born and raised there and studied there, maths and philosophy amongst other things.

and in addition he is also Peruvian.

so he's more than American. hyper American if you will. and now he's the head of state of the Vatican, too.

a triple whopper of sorts ;-)

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DonHopkins ◴[] No.43935166[source]
You can't study maths in America. There is only one math in America.
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1. froh ◴[] No.43939413[source]
loool TIL

my cheap excuse is that Europeans learn en-uk ;-)