We have a pope...or something

 

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Pro-Trump/pro-Vance Breitbart News tries to cope with the new Woke Pope in the State of Vatican City. See links below! Whatever. 

Personally, I would like to know why Prevost took the papal name Leo XIV. Leo XIII (the Pope most people-in-the-know think about when they hear the name "Leo") is still seen as one of the greatest popes in modern Catholic history (reigned 1878-1903). So choosing *that* name strikes me as...daring. 

Also, what does it tell us about Prevost´s political orientation? Leo XIII could be seen as a cautious reformer. But he could also be seen as radical, since his predecessors on the papal throne were arch-conservative. Leo XIII, by contrast, is associated with "Rerum novarum", the first social encyclical. It inspired the Catholic trade union movement. I read "Rerum novarum" years ago and didn´t find it particularly radical, but in its 1891 Catholic context, maybe it was. So perhaps the name signals that Prevost wants to be explicitly political and even somewhat "radical"?

I suppose we´re about to find out, aren´t we?   

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