- These articles make my skin crawl. Imagine doing something significant at the world stage and next thing you know is some ghoul launches a hunt for your nonwhite ancestry so that they, not their ideological enemies, can decide how you'll be weaponised in the culture wars. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
- Is it, though? New Orleans Creole community are literally the original USA Catholics. Proving a Pope has a close genealogical link to them is a bit like documenting legit Puritan heritage for a high-profile WASP.May 11, 2025 11:48
- See my immediate next post bsky.app/profile/lolg...
- There are no WASP Popes my dude, the clue is in the name. Only about a quarter of practicing Catholics live in Europe and North America, so yeah you'll start getting Popes of all origins and colours eventually. www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
- So yes i hear you. There's nothing to probe or prove here. Where would an American Pope have come from?
- Boomer gen US Catholics often have backgrounds worthy of a historical novel: Old Mexican families who lived in Teijas before the war; Irish-Americans who fled the Great Hunger; Vietnamese boat ppl; Italians and Poles in the early c20th; Syriac Catholics from the Middle East, Cubans escaping Castro.
- So of course it’s not an ideological gotya, but it’s definitely newsworthy- partly in a nosy gossip mag way, but also as quite a nice illustrated example explainer of “Is the Pope a Catholic, and does the word Catholic mean what it says on the tin’
