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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: An American Pope
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The odds were better for the biggest longshot in the Kentucky Derby. An American has become Pope.
It was said that no American could become Pope because the church wouldn't vest its power in someone with a Super Power. I would think, however, that there is no greater Super Power than God, so we shouldn't worry.
Many people are pointing out that he spend twenty years in Peru so he's actually Peruvian. No, he's American, born here, but with a dual citizenship. Others, especially non-Catholics, panic when he's called a "missionary," thinking of the Colonialist/Imperialist times when...