Leo the XIV

[WrestlingRasta]

First ever American Pope.  Hugely surprised over here. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

Chicago born, Villanova grad, Cubs fan. It is like they chose one of my family members.

[mspart]

He's the 14th Leo.   Can't he be a bit more original?   Pope Francis went that direction.   Congratulations to him and the church to avoid a protracted conclave.   Hoping for good things and a long papacy.  For full disclosure, I am not Catholic. 

mspart

[WrestlingRasta]

5 minutes ago, mspart said:

He's the 14th Leo.   Can't he be a bit more original?   Pope Francis went that direction.   Congratulations to him and the church to avoid a protracted conclave.   Hoping for good things and a long papacy.  For full disclosure, I am not Catholic. 

mspart

They’ve been numerating the Pope papacy name going back to like the third century, just part of the history and tradition. The first Leo was in the year of our Lord 440.  Since about the tenth century or so pretty much all of the Popes have been numerated. 
 

I’m not Catholic either but my wife was and I’m a huge fan of history, so…

[mspart]

3 minutes ago, WrestlingRasta said:

They’ve been numerating the Pope papacy name going back to like the third century, just part of the history and tradition. The first Leo was in the year of our Lord 440.  Since about the tenth century or so pretty much all of the Popes have been numerated. 
 

I’m not Catholic either but my wife was and I’m a huge fan of history, so…

John Paul and Francis are two notable exceptions to the enumerating.   I agree with what you are saying.   It has been a tradition. 

mspart

[Lipdrag]

1 hour ago, WrestlingRasta said:

First ever American Pope.  Hugely surprised over here. 

I second the hugeness of surprise.  I had an African pope on my FanDuel.

[Tripnsweep]

I was hoping he'd pick Constantine. 

[Husker_Du]

sounded like the candidate from Africa had a lot of momentum. i wonder if he was 'too conservative' but perhaps that's just me overthinking things.

anyway, i'm happy an American got in for the first tiime.

 

[Offthemat]

Since the Chinese Catholics had the most at stake, time will tell. 

[VakAttack]

The Church is clearly trying to avoid the tariffs.

[Lipdrag]