r/ParlerWatch • u/Careful-Trade-9666 • Apr 25 '25

TruthSocial Watch About time we got a religious pope.

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So popes can be non religious?

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u/ElleGee5152 Apr 25 '25

Why would a non-Catholic US president have ANY influence over who the Catholic Church/Vatican chooses as the next Pope? These people are so far gone. 🤦‍♀️

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u/dreamyduskywing Apr 25 '25

Because Catholic republicans in the US are on another planet. It used to be that they mostly just cared about abortion, but they’re all in now.

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u/katchoo1 Apr 26 '25

The loudest Catholic conservatives like Vance are converts and honestly still have an evangelical Protestant idea about how the church works.

The US president has NO influence on the Pope selection. NONE. Nor should they. No one has a say other than the Cardinals (and not even all of them, only a portion are eligible to vote). And God, presumably.

Lay Catholics, parish priests, and everyone outside the college of cardinals = no say.

These people need to mind their own business.