Habemus Papam Americanum

Initial impressions (that I pray time will invalidate).

Reynolds Plantation, GA

May 9, 2025

Well (as one meme announced this morning), I guess that’s one way for the Vatican to avoid Trump’s tariffs!

On Thursday the cardinals selected a pope who was “made in the USA.”

All else equal, I wish he weren’t. This is a personal preference, but I’d rather the pope seem more mysterious, ethereal, and distant.

I don’t wan…