I went to Catholic school and most of my friends parents would have been democrats, were it not for abortion. If the new pope can convince those Catholics to stop supporting republicans, it’s a win.

He's still a senior member of the catholic church and is complicit in covering up their sex abuse of children, but at least he seems to be fairly not-fascist about most other topics.

Weird they don’t like him since he’s a pedo enabler and trump is a pedo

More like GOP=Louis XIV

Proximity to DC.

you’ve not been paying attention to ICE lately huh?

The last part is the most important.

The pope coming to America is always a big deal. He's explicitly calling on American Catholics to choose sides.

Fuck the Vatican and all but boy is it tempting to go show my "support"

Judeo-Christian scriptures are many things, including misogynistic (women are literally considered property), but they are not, and never have been, homophobic. Not defending them, just pointing out one of those fun facts that gets overlooked because people accept what they’re told - including in the form of compromised translations - without ever raising a finger to confirm if it’s accurate. They want to believe it, so they do.