The moment when white smoke appeared over the Sistine chapel, I immediately operated a TV, because I wanted to see who would be the new Pope, then jumped on social media, because I learned that the Internet could tell me more about the new Pope faster than the TV can. So, the memes will be good.
The memes came first, of course, flying in the most difficult and faster than ever with Pope Francis, because the new Pope was American. Not only this Chicago, With a vital presence full of cultural touch stones that the US MIM economy realized immediately: Did he drink the Pope ever Malort? The Pope was cubs or a Success fan? Will God be mediated on behalf of Nix in the American Professional League qualifiers because the Pope came out of Villanova? The next wave of information was, I thought, news and articles about his upbringing, pastoral history and religious situations – would be things that would tell the world about the type of leader that this new Pope will be.
Then someone followed him posted a screenshot of X account with the Drprevost handle: three tweets, during the past three months, which are linked to articles criticizing the cruelty of the immigration policy of Donald Trump. True, the words were not direct from the bouquet that preceded itself, but they were signs of life and the intention with that: a short, unprotected moment, a sign was active and participant, which talked about volumes about the ideas of the new deeper Pope. I think he had no time for his social allowance, I thought first, knowing that the giant Maga political reaction was on the horizon. The Pope has only an hour – if it is – between choosing and revealing itself to the world. definitely It is not enough time to ensure that the timelines have clean.
Then she stopped temporarily. I am waiting. Why do I think of cleaning the Pope Tables?
I am not Catholic, and he did not grow up. The best description of my religious affiliation is “engraved Buddhism”. But I was always fascinated by the Catholic Church as an institution: its deep history, its vast theology, its artistic influence and societal domination, the internal policy and external diplomacy of modern Vatican. Sometimes, I ware that I am treating and singing Catholicism in the same way that the white men weaken Japan, but my charm itself is honest: I am surprised somewhat, that the Vatican kept his Sufism in the modern era – a worldly point between physical and divine.
This is why I am still having difficulty wrapping my head about the fact that less than two hours in his papal, I learned more about the Pope through his digital imprint more than I did through the information that was filtered through press brochures in the Vatican or interviews with his friends and family.
I learned from his tweet (and the discourse surrounding the tweets) that he supported the legislation of Syrian arms control and refugees, and opposed the cancellation of DACA, condemned to the 2017 massacre in Charlottesville, and called for Trump to support climate change legislation. I learned it He wrote a book on religious statistics (Available on JSTOR). I learned from one of the participants that he was a registered Republican, just to learn moments that Illinois does not have the registration of party voters. (the Washington’s free lighthouse Reports that Liu XIV has It was previously voted in the Republican introductory elections))
Then I encountered something more intimate: personal Facebook profile on Facebook.
I had no even going to dig for him. A friend of mine who enrolled in Augustine high school, because he seemed to have been a viral among the people who enrolled in Augustine educational institutions, because everyone who went to Augustine School in the United States somehow knows someone who knows him. The Robert Prevost account is currently set on the private-land sector, because 68-year-old children rarely Set their Facebook accounts on the private sector by default – but there is one general image available: The Future Pope Leo XIV, wears pilots and black wind pilots, over the dowry. This is Mimi there, I thought about my terrible, earthly, secular mind.
Without thinking about it, I copied the link and sent it almost to a group chat, before I took myself with disgust. A virus or not, this was the special narration of a man who had a special degree of private life when he came out of the bed this morning, and it is clear that he did not expect the Pope’s election. Anyone who houses an ambition to become the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion people worldwide, at least, probably Ensure that his social is safe – His 172 friends on Facebook were hidden from the rest of the world, or that his tweet from 2017 will not start from a diplomatic storm from a reckless head or vice president of hatred – before he surrendered his electronic devices in the flavor.
I don’t think I would have stopped temporarily to send this social media profile if he belonged to anyone else: a politician, a celebrity, a co -worker I did not know well, which is a blind date that needs to be examined. They are sufficient Venmo requests for the professions of Congress. Old tweets can land a person in hot water today. The finding of the former Fox News number, which is associated with the general Google Reviews, can indicate a huge national security crisis.
The moment you are trying to apply this standard to The Pope dominates, Nevertheless, logic stops – not because the global leader should not be on this standard, but because it is completely confusing that one can even intend social communication in the deputy of Christ. In fact, it is confused to believe that a religious figure Be able to It is subject to the audit of their internet history, or they have something as digital varieties – especially a person who inherits a role dating back to the time of Jesus, and it was assumed by St. Peter the Apostle, whose predecessors were the ancient saints and medieval rulers, and who claim the title of the representative of God on the ground, according to the Church members 1.4.
Perhaps the obsession with the re -tweeting of the Pope is a unique secular means to evaluate the American Pope – not by leading the order of Saint Augustine or his ministerial work in Peru, but through his record of voting, his sporting loyalty, or whether he has been tweeting about things about the president. (we We are A very tribal nation only thinks about things through the lens of being American.) We are now collectively involved in extracting the introduction of Pope Liu fourteenth, the former clues as much as we try to try the divine to choose his name for the name and the thirteen Lius that came before him. Verily or not, the digital history of the religious personality is now something.
