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But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:

  “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.”

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• arrow74@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perhaps they hope he can rein in American Catholics?

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• ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because the Vatican should make its choices based on Secular politics and your fee fees instead of character.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s all made up fantasy and bullshit anyways, no need to get worked up over old men cosplaying, and it is actually based on secular politics and feelings, and money. that’s religion for ya.

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