How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope

(nytimes.com)

27 points | by nxobject 20 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • wavemode 19 hours ago ago
  • tobr 19 hours ago ago

    > ”Bob, this could be proposed to you”

    That’s incredible. The new pope is called Bob. I will only refer to him as Pope Bob I.

    • throw310822 18 hours ago ago

      Bob's twitter account is still online. Used sparingly and mostly for retweets, but used:

      "Catholic, Augustinian, Bishop"

      Currently in Rome.

      https://x.com/drprevost

      • pwdisswordfishz 18 hours ago ago

        And the official Vatican account, @Pontifex, went back to being attributed to Francis, after briefly being named "Apostolica Sedes Vacans".

        I suppose it makes more sense than the total mess that is @eucopresident, where past tweets are retroactively attributed to the current officeholder.

      • nxobject 8 hours ago ago

        Most importantly, title is in Spanish!

    • em3rgent0rdr 16 hours ago ago

      Just like that, Bob's your uncle and Holy father.

  • Tsiklon 14 hours ago ago

    I’m a lapsed catholic. I look forward to seeing how the new Pope chooses to use his position. I saw Francis as a decent, respectable man, and especially took heart in his and the church’s recent rational missive on AI.

    Leo XIV has to rise to one of the greatest organisational challenges anyone could face in the current day; managing this Leviathan institution through a minefield that’s ever shifting, the consequences for gaffes and misspokenness are very real and enormous.

  • fakedang 15 hours ago ago

    Considering Pope Bob I's the only pope with a very active online history, I wouldn't call him "quiet". Especially with him being an anti-MAGA critic of the current US regime, as his post and comment history on X shows.