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The big headline in the Chicago newspapers asks whether he is a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. His brother answered the question, pointing out that since he grew up on the south side he was of course a Sox fan.
lol. That's great.
Villanova is trash talking every other Catholic university. ::banana::
Quote from: David HardingThe big headline in the Chicago newspapers asks whether he is a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. His brother answered the question, pointing out that since he grew up on the south side he was of course a Sox fan.
Daaaaaaaaa Pope!
And the big news here is SE PA is that he went to Villanova.
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82And the big news here is SE PA is that he went to Villanova.
Wait til they find out he's black.
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82And the big news here is SE PA is that he went to Villanova.
Wait til they find out he's black.
Hmm. Didn't know that. That's not getting a lot of press.
Am I right in assuming he's the first modern mixed-race pope? Of course, I have no idea who the popes were in the early church, hence the "modern".
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82And the big news here is SE PA is that he went to Villanova.
Wait til they find out he's black.
Hmm. Didn't know that. That's not getting a lot of press.
Am I right in assuming he's the first modern mixed-race pope? Of course, I have no idea who the popes were in the early church, hence the "modern".
Creole roots.
Here's a story from the AP https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-creole-roots-new-orleans-black-b5794961d9582941413fe3154b30cc87
And NYT (gifted link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/pope-creole-roots-new-orleans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU8.lyDV.dK25utMwA4M0&smid=url-share
Quote from: Scersk '97Quote from: David HardingThe big headline in the Chicago newspapers asks whether he is a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. His brother answered the question, pointing out that since he grew up on the south side he was of course a Sox fan.
Daaaaaaaaa Pope!
Daaaaaaaaa prayerssss. (SNL nailing the self-referential joke last night)
Plus there's footage of New Pope attending the 2005 World Series in Sox garb that's making news.
Quote from: David HardingQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82And the big news here is SE PA is that he went to Villanova.
Wait til they find out he's black.
Hmm. Didn't know that. That's not getting a lot of press.
Am I right in assuming he's the first modern mixed-race pope? Of course, I have no idea who the popes were in the early church, hence the "modern".
Creole roots.
Here's a story from the AP https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-creole-roots-new-orleans-black-b5794961d9582941413fe3154b30cc87
And NYT (gifted link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/pope-creole-roots-new-orleans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU8.lyDV.dK25utMwA4M0&smid=url-share
Also in Wikipedia.
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Am I right in assuming he's the first modern mixed-race pope? Of course, I have no idea who the popes were in the early church, hence the "modern".
Race in the sense we mean it is a modern conceit. Amazingly, nobody gave a shit about skin color except as a curiosity, like eye color.
They cared
A LOT about where you born and what language you spoke (https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness), though.
It's
almost as if skin color was deliberately crafted as a wedge (https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-in-racism/) to keep the Poors from rising up and slaughtering the rich. Or, far worse, voting for progressive taxation.
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Am I right in assuming he's the first modern mixed-race pope? Of course, I have no idea who the popes were in the early church, hence the "modern".
Race in the sense we mean it is a modern conceit. Amazingly, nobody gave a shit about skin color except as a curiosity, like eye color.
They cared A LOT about where you born and what language you spoke (https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness), though.
It's almost as if skin color was deliberately crafted as a wedge (https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-in-racism/) to keep the Poors from rising up and slaughtering the rich. Or, far worse, voting for progressive taxation.
Preaching to the choir, dude.
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Am I right in assuming he's the first modern mixed-race pope? Of course, I have no idea who the popes were in the early church, hence the "modern".
Race in the sense we mean it is a modern conceit. Amazingly, nobody gave a shit about skin color except as a curiosity, like eye color.
They cared A LOT about where you born and what language you spoke (https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness), though.
It's almost as if skin color was deliberately crafted as a wedge (https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-in-racism/) to keep the Poors from rising up and slaughtering the rich. Or, far worse, voting for progressive taxation.
Preaching to the choir, dude.
Sigh. Such is my lot.
QuoteAy, prithee, friend, if thou hast love
For goodly jests or care for me,
Then tell him not the merry tale
That yesternight I told to thee.