Hey everybody, we got a new pope There's a new
one after only a couple of days in their conclave
the College of Cardinals have elected a new pope
Now personally, I had been rooting for Cardinal
pizza dance, right? Yeah, he was my he was my
favorite, but the Cardinals went another way
and shocked Everybody they elected the first
American pope Robert Prevost, I'm not sure how
to say his last name, of Chicago, Illinois has
been elected to the papacy and taken the name
Leo XIV. He was made a cardinal a few years ago
by Pope Francis, and he's thought to be continuing
Pope Francis' kind of progressive push of the
Catholic Church going forward. Jay, I know this
is all fairly new news to you, but what is your
first reaction to a Catholic Pope from Chicago?
Yeah, it's like Why do we care? Sorry, sorry.
No, no, it's uh, if you've ever been to the the
country, it's very very big very massive I got
to go to the Vatican Was that two years ago two
years ago now? Yes giant country someone say
it's the world's smallest country, but No, they
have a lot of cool shit. It is the largest branch
of Christianity. Yeah. And the pope does have
a lot of effect on kind of politics and culture
and how things are moving. I've seen a lot of
mixed reaction. Conservatives are not happy about
this. This was not the guy they were rooting
for. OK, well, here's my thing. One, get the
fuck over it. You can't win everything. You can't
win. the president of the United States and Congress
and freaking everything and then want to also
win religion. No. OK. Suck it up, you little
snowflakes. Deal with it. Go cry and pray to
the new pope. I don't know. Just going doubles
the bears, the pope. Yeah, this was definitely
a dark horse, a dark horse move from the College
of Cardinals. Nobody again. When I heard it this
morning, I was like, what? You know, now I did
see some good jokes online that he would be excommunicating
people for putting ketchup on hot dogs, because
apparently that's a that's a Chicago thing and
that the body of Christ is now a deep dish pizza.
Oh, my God. We're going to go to church now.
Like, give me pizza. Give me pizza. The big argument
that's been going on a lot. I see this a lot
within Catholic spaces is is there's this very
big schism right now between what you kind of
call cradle Catholics, which are people who were
born into the religion and converts, adult converts
specifically, because a lot of those adult converts
are kind of coming from evangelicalism. Like
they want that crazy. conservativism, but they
think that the structure of Catholicism is more
their way. But the people who are born and raised
in the Catholic Church are kind of walking around
going, why are you guys being so serious? Relax.
I mean, most most Catholics who I know who are
who are born into the faith are let's call them
the more. It's it's almost a cultural thing and
not really a religious thing for them, you know
What do you what do you think with that? Do you
think that that's probably where a lot of those
adult converts are is? Evangelicals who want
the ritual out of it So I actually just looked
this up. I had to look this up. Sorry guys So
I looked up so fun facts if you're born into
the religion When you die and you go to heaven,
you do get a fast pass for all the rides. Oh,
really? Whereas if you're a convert, you don't
get the fast pass. You don't get the best. You
have to stand in line. So like, oh, it's you're
still in the amusement park, but you don't get
the fast pass. Right. You're standing. No, I
think I think you're right. I think it's because
like. There's a lot of. Rituals and it's very.
I was never Catholic. Um, but it is kind of cool
when you start thinking about like, Oh, this,
this has been either a like standing gear for
thousands of years or be like, we're doing the
same motions. We're doing the same. I don't know.
I don't want to say say on so dear. Uh, we're,
we're saying the same like prayer that has been
said for thousands of years. There is like that
really kind of cool old. ritualistic feel that
comes with like the Catholic faith. Faith. So
I think I think you are correct. Yeah. And again,
cradle Catholics repeat like. So again, from
my background, my father was raised Catholic.
He was Catholic. My mother was like non denominational
Protestant kind of style. So I got both sides
of it. Right. So I got to go to mass and crazy
evangelical churches. Hmm. People who are raised
in the Catholic faith, again, they view their
faith, I think, very differently. Right. Like,
again, because they're kind of born into it,
they don't take it as seriously. It's just kind
of like one of those things where it's like,
it's always there, you know. And so watching
these arguments is really fascinating to me.
Right. To see them be like, you know, and also
the Catholic converts tend to be a lot more culturally
conservative. right small c conservative than
like people who are raised within the church
which you would think it would be the opposite
right like that people raised within the church
would be more conservative when when really it's
it's the converts who who become more socially
conservative than the people who are raised within
the confines of the catholic church it's very
strange to me yeah um Is kind of Is weird. Yeah,
I mean, I also saw some reaction like USA USA
Like Again there is a lot of people who believe
that this because of if you actually by the way
There was a bunch of people passing around the
new Pope's Twitter feed Right because he was
on Twitter Right his last few tweets were extremely
critical of the Trump administration and Extremely
critical of the American government and how they're
treating immigrants and things like that so There
is a belief that within the College of Card,
obviously No one will ever know what was said
by the College of Cardinals inside the conclave.
It's still very very secret You know But there
is a feeling that much like with the Canadian
elections, the Australian elections being kind
of a repudiation of American conservatism kind
of rising again, that the College of Cardinals
may have looked at this and said, what if we
put in a progressive American pope, right? And
that this is how they're meeting this moment
in history, which I find to be fascinating. It
is my only question here is how do you think
our Jedi Trump is going to react if What was
his name Pope Leo now Leo the 14th Leo the 14th
starts bashing on America. How do you think Trump
is gonna respond? him and vice president vance's
uh initial responses were generally positive
they're very nice apparently they're already
trying to set up a time for the president to
go see the new pope uh but i think yes i think
if he's vociferously like criticizing how they're
dealing with the immigrant situation everything
else in the united states i think they will turn
on him very fast now i think that the vp is much
less likely to turn on the pope outwardly well
he killed the last one right yeah He did, you
know, he went and saw Pope Francis and the professors
like, you know, so anyway, folks, let us know
what you think down in the comments below. Are
you excited for Merica Pope? Right. What do we
think this new post going to be like? Were you
were you following this? Were you fascinated
by the smoke coming from the chimney? These are
one of those lovely historical events that only
happens a few times in your lifetime, so I find
it very fascinating. Let us know what you think
down in the comments below.