Some Reads for Thursday

 No doubt the Vatican wanted to stick it to the dipshit in the White House when it not only selected, rather quickly, an American pope, but one who is highly critical of Trump.  If Bob Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is anything like the late Pope Francis, he should be a good one.


He was born the same year as I was, 1955, but he is about nine months younger.  He may be the last pope in my lifetime.

More, this from his alma mater, Villanova University:


Born in Chicago, Ill., Pope Leo XIV, then Robert Prevost, joined the Order of St. Augustine in 1977. Following his undergraduate studies at Villanova, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, he earned a Master of Divinity from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago in 1982 and was ordained a priest the same year. Pope Leo XIV went on to earn both licentiate (1984) and doctorate (1987) degrees in canon law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Villanova also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa, in 2014.

After joining the Augustinian mission in Peru in 1985, Pope Leo XIV worked predominantly in that country until the late 1990s. Nearly a decade of that time was spent leading the Augustinian seminary in Trujillo and teaching canon law at the diocesan seminary. Pope Leo XIV returned to his hometown in 1999 after being named provincial of the Augustinian Province of Chicago. He was then elected in 2001 as prior general of the Augustinians and reelected to a second six-year term in 2007.\

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From 2022:  How did this crackpot gain such a following among billionaires like Thiel?  The explanation would be easy, as Thiel is as nutty as Yarvin.

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