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.
May 11, 2025 12:08So 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’
