Jason DeRose

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It's Been a Minute · Are you pope-pilled? Here's your guide to the 2025 Conclave. · 2 May 2025 podcast

So these cardinal electors will, on a ballot, a piece of paper, write down the name of the person they want to be pope. And then one at a time, they will walk up to the table at the front of the Sistine Chapel. They will put that piece of paper on a small plate. They will, with that plate, drop the piece of paper, the ballot, into a big chalice. And then after all of the electors have done that,

They will draw the names out one at a time. And there will be three people sitting at that table. The first cardinal will read the name to himself. The next cardinal will read the name to himself. And the next cardinal will read the name aloud. Oh. So that they have three people confirming that that's what that name is.

And then the last person who reads it aloud... will, with a needle, pierce the ballot and string it up. This is so that there aren't double votes. So it's this very ceremonial tradition of how the vote happens. And it's completely secret. In fact, the cardinals are asked to maybe disguise your handwriting, although I don't know how you would know anybody else's handwriting.

There are 133 of them, and I don't know how you could recognize that many people's handwriting.

Well, it's interesting that you say they've not met because, you know, Francis appointed so many of them and they're from all over the world and they don't get together like weekly to meet each other and examine each other's handwriting. They get together once in a while. Yeah.

I got on a plane as soon as the Pope died. So I don't know what people are saying in the United States. I don't know what people in Rome are saying. And every Italian that I talk to says it's time to have an Italian Pope again. Every cab driver, every server in a restaurant, you know, everybody, every salesperson that I've just chatted with says it's time for an Italian Pope again.

Well, I would say that his legacy falls into a few areas. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list. I would say real openness to dialogue. Over the last few years, there was this almost several years-long conversation, which was called a synod on synodality, which basically meant the church talking to itself about how it wanted to be the church together.

The pope wanted to have a conversation that said, I want to hear what people in the pews in Cleveland, Ohio, are saying about what the church should look like in the future. And then I think that there are a few issues that were sort of the big issues in his papacy that will probably, you know, 50 years down the road, people might still talk about.

And I would say his real attention to migrants and poverty. His first trip was to this island Lampedusa, which is an Italian island off the coast of North Africa. because it was where migrants, refugees, were floating to on rafts and boats. And so he really wanted to be present with them and say, the church sees you and hears you. So I would say migrants, a very big issue for him.

Also the environment. He issued two letters about the environment. In a certain way, that did upset some Catholics who say, live in coal country or oil country, whose whole economy is based on fossil fuels, He appointed a huge number of women to various committees throughout the church.

And the final issue that I'll raise is LGBTQ issues, which, you know, the Pope did not change official church teaching. Same-sex sexual activity is still a sin within the Catholic Church. And the church teaches that same-sex sexual attraction is objectively disordered. And that's their phrase, quote unquote, objectively disordered.

But he did allow for priests to bless people in same-sex relationships.

That was a huge move. I was, in fact, in Tel Aviv covering the war in Gaza. And when that happened, and I had to get on the line and do a live conversation with all things considered, hoping that the air raid sirens weren't going to go off. Oh, my gosh.

Well, he has the power to draw the attention of the world to the things that he cares about. And so if you can draw the eyes and ears of the world to migrants, to the environment, to the role of women, to LGBTQ issues, that wields huge power. power.

You know, I think if you think about, he had a great focus on the idea of being a pastor, a shepherd. The word pastor and shepherd are related etymologically. And if you think of like being in the field with your flock, well, there are certain kinds of bosses that are in the field with their flock who know how to do everything because perhaps they work their way up like Francis did.

You're welcome.

Ha!

I think B. Okay.

Medici.

Thank you. I will now have bragging rights.

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