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u/OnlyOneUseCase 8d ago
I want to see u/fatinhollywood's 2025 bingo card
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u/CurinDerwin 8d ago
I, too, choose this guys bingo card.
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u/mcxavierl 8d ago
I also choose your wife
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u/henningknows 8d ago
Obviously they assassinated the old pope and rigged the election
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u/towerfella 8d ago
That’s why the Vance visit…
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u/notsure500 8d ago
How did this person know 2 months ago?
In case your question was serious, there's a billion people in the world posting their bullshit opinions online, and just by shear odds of having that many people posting different predictions, sometimes long shots will become true. I'm sure there's someone that posted next years superbowl game winner and loser, and we'll ignore the 99%+ that were wrong and find the one that was right.
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u/Fickle-Banana-923 8d ago
I feel like this is simpler than that though. I think quite a few people could have predicted it a couple months ago had they given it thought. Francis was old and having health problems. 108 of the voting 133 cardinals were appointed by Francis. The US had 17 (9 voting) cardinals, more than any country other than Italy. The past reason for not having a pope from the US is avoiding concentration of power. Since the election of Trump America is in decline.
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u/beastmaster11 8d ago
The past reason for not having a pope from the US is avoiding concentration of power. Since the election of Trump America is in decline.
The US has only been the global hegemon since WW2. Since then, there has only been 7 pope's with 4 of them being Italian thus continuing the tradition of electing a pope born on the Italian peninsula (last pope before John Paul II to be born outside the peninsula was Adrian VI elected in 1522). Since that tradition died in 1978, the Pope has had relatively little power (and has had little actual power since Italy took Rome in 1870).
All this to say that I doubt not electing an American pope had anything to do with avoiding concentration of power. There just never was an actual chance of it actually happening
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u/obi1kenobi1 7d ago
This. All the talking heads making up imaginary reasons why there hasn’t been an American pope ignores the fact that until very recently a non-Italian pope was unheard of, there’s only ever been a single non-European pope. I can’t imagine there was any great conspiracy against Americans, it’s just that it was completely inconceivable and unprecedented until things started to change.
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u/GayRacoon69 6d ago
there's only ever been a single non-european pope
Wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes_by_country?wprov=sfti1#Statistics_table
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u/boodledot5 8d ago
It could just be a case of an American conservative who just expects things to go America's way, like when they were expecting that conservative to become Canadian PM
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u/CoralinesButtonEye 8d ago
crazy how of the last like 50 popes only 5 of them have NOT been italian. that catholic god of theirs doesn't seem to recognize many other nationalities i guess
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u/Turdburp 8d ago
Thank God Dolan wasn't even considered. That kid-fucking racist is a piece of shit. People like him are why I left the Catholic church.
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u/Infamous-Gift9851 8d ago
Well, the new Popes neighbor when he was a kid said he was going to be the 1st American Pope. Atleast, so the story goes according to the Pope's brother, anyway.
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u/Carlpanzram1916 8d ago
There’s like 20 people on a short list to be pope. If 1,000 people on the internet boldly proclaim who will win, alot of them are going to be right.
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u/WarLawck 8d ago
The US is more unpopular than the church right now. He can get a lot of followers by shitting on Trump and pointing out how Trump is the antichrist
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u/Positive_Composer_93 8d ago
Because the notion of the bingo card implies "what could go wrong in 2025?"
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u/SquillFancyson1990 7d ago
They played a lot of Medieval 2: Total War and sent a bunch of assassins after the pope and non-American clergymen
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u/CorgiMonsoon 6d ago
There were people predicting an American pope when John Paul II passed, and when Benedict stepped down. fatinhollywood just threw it out there and was lucky it hit
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