The Pope is dead! Who is next?

[Arakhor]

Other than Leo the Great, the most famous pope called Leo was Leo X, the Medici pope who rather mishandled the Reformation.

 

[Kyriakos]

A missed opportunity for Pizzaballa, the people's pope ^^

 

[Evie]

I mean, we got Deep Dish Pizzaballa instead?

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I think you must look at the previous pope with he same name. Leo XIII in this case:

He is well known for his intellectualism and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking. In his famous 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum, Pope Leo outlined the rights of workers to a fair wage, safe working conditions, and the formation of trade unions, while affirming the rights to property and free enterprise, opposing both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism. With that encyclical, he became popularly called the "Social Pope" and the "Pope of the Workers"

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Maybe before blabbing your mouth off about the people who think this is a rebuke of Trump (and general MAGA-conservatism) and how it's all American arrogance, you might want to look at the location clearly displayed right under our user names next to our posts.

I'm Canadian, so's Valka, Thorgalaeg is Spanish...I think we KNOW how much of the world isn't the USA.

Besides which, MAGA-style politics has a long reach. Even before Trump first became a problem nearly 10 years ago, the Republican-style dirty politics and even funding of fringe Canadian right-wing groups has been going on. By this point it's an outright infestation, in particular targeting Ontario and Alberta.

The type of conservatives we have in my province love to push their religion, but it's the kind where they wave their bibles and demonstrate how little of it they've actually read and understand. The premier and her party are Trump/Republican fans, so of course they're not happy with a pope who is on record chastising Trump.

Is there anything that can be read out of his choosing Leo as his name? Is there some previous Leo who is famous for one kind of initiative or another during his papacy?

I suppose I could go Wiki all of the previous Leos and see what I find, but surely somebody better informed has done that work more efficiently than I could.

Honestly, the first (admittedly stupid) thought that popped into my head when I heard that he'd chosen the name Leo was "Leo the Lion and Hardy-har-har" (characters in an old children's cartoon).

 

[Birdjaguar]

Cardinals preparing for the conclave

 

[Sommerswerd]

Out of great reverence for the catholic church and its infallible representative of god, of course.

Of course

 

[AdrienIer]

A missed opportunity for Pizzaballa, the people's pope ^^

He's only 60, there's a good chance he'll still be there next time !

 

[Gori the Grey]

Former Archbishop of Boston Seán Patrick O'Malley wrote on his blog that the new pontiff "has chosen a name widely associated with the social justice legacy of Pope Leo XIII, who was pontiff at a time of epic upheaval in the world, the time of the industrial revolution, the beginning of Marxism, and widespread immigration".

I've been watching some coverage. To follow up: what he has said about the name choice is that he sees a parallel between the transformations of the industrial revolution and the transformations of AI. As Leo XIII met the first, he wants to meet the second.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

How Pope Leo XIV broke a major rule before his inaugural Mass

The newly elected Pope Leo, 69, arrived at around 8.15am and could be seen addressing the crowd from his open-top popemobile.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Unless he is looking for martyrdom better to use the bulletproofed one, specially this pope.

 

[amadeus]

Just realized now the world has two heads of state who are: American, white, senior, male, ride in bulletproof cars, and were elected by a college.

Spoiler free joke inside :

One ran a real estate business before being elected, the other one after.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

The thing is he is riding in a not bulletproof car, asking for a bullet, not the kind of bullet that does microscopic damage in the ear, so microscopic to not leaving the slightest visible consequence but enough for spilling some photogenic amount of blood, but the kind of bullet that kills you or leaves you with sequels for the rest of your life, like happened to Karl Wojtyla from Poland.