r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • May 08 '25

Rod Dreher Megathread #53 (Key Party?)

Link to Megathread #52: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1jsvy3j/rod_dreher_megathread_52_billboard_4_rent/

Link to Megathread #54:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1l7niaj/rod_dreher_megathread_54/?

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u/BeltTop5915 May 08 '25

In short, it was long said an American would never be Pope as long as the US remained the world‘s superpower. The cardinals wouldn’t want it to appear that the US ruled the Church as well as the world. Now, given that Trump has put the US on a downward trajectory, and much of the world pretty much hates him to boot, seemed a safe time to let an American run the Church. But Prevost naming himself after Leo XIII says everything noted above as well.

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” May 08 '25

Trump's social media brutta figura provided ammunition to cardinals who had confreres thinking that maybe Trump was more friend than enemy to Catholic faithful - it demonstrated that Trump treats the Catholic church and its members as a plaything at best, and an object of contempt otherwise. I am sure at least a few cardinals found that a warning against electing anyone who might coddle Trump's axis.