This has got me curious…if Catholicism is very active in Latin America and Southern & Eastern Europe, where would the “center of mass” (sorry) of the Roman Catholic Church be? Perhaps off the NE coast of Brazil?!
Ah yes….
Breaking News: Pope Catholic.
He’s the head of the RCC. Not of the SBC and not of the UCC and not of the US Congress. And thus his church policy positions are not going to “map” neatly to a US-centric GOP/Dem or lib/con axis. Which won’t keep anyone from claiming stuff about it.
OTH if it triggers Loomer that’s worth some entertainment, not gonna lie.
First US-born Pope, continuity of Popes who were Bishops in the Global South, pretty big international event.
That is also an egregious waste of school time, but it wouldn’t raise any concerns that the teacher is attempting to religiously indoctrinate my kid.
Stay tuned for shocking revelations about bears in the woods!
one could have it up, and still teach whatever subject is in that hour.
schools would have world events up in classrooms while teaching the proper subject.
It is a pet peeve of mine when teachers spend too much time having kids watch videos. I’m not too worried about a single event like this–it’s a once-in-a-generation event that’ll have significant cultural ripples, plus it’s super telegenic what with the smoke and the fancy robes and all–but if it were happening a lot, I’d be annoyed.
I wish the new Pope well. May he be true to Christ’s teachings and build upon his predecessor’s reforms.
For the other pontiffs of his name: Pope Leo - Wikipedia
Golda Meir was born in Ukraine (then part of Russian Empire), but moved to Milwaukee and eventually became a naturalized US Citizen. I can’t find if/when she gave up US citizenship.
Janet Jagan was born in the US and became President of Guyana.
Brian
When I was in high school a long time ago, we watched the funeral of Dwight Eisenhower in lieu of class. No parents, including my own, complained.
" That’s the Chicago Way. "
Big for Catholics, for sure.
Not sure about anyone else.
Well, as I commented to a colleague, I have the feeling that more than a few of the ones that decided to vote for Leo, did so to give a poke in the eye to the MAGA/Trump guys.
Harder to ignore an American Pope regarding what Jesus would do about immigrants.
Eamon de Valera served as both Prime Minister, and later President of Ireland.
His brother says that’s not correct. He’s a White Sox fan, not Cubs.
But later in the day, an ABC7 reporter caught up with one of the pope’s older brothers, John Prevost, and asked him to confirm the report.
He said it wasn’t true.
“He’s a Sox fan,” John Prevost told ABC7.
The confusion may have stemmed from the fact that their mother, the late Mildred Prevost, was from the North Side, John Prevost said. Their late father, Louis, was a St. Louis Cardinals fan. But Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, chose the Sox.
“Standing on his own two feet,” John Prevost said.
Another excellent Borowitz report:
Calling the Trump Bible “a very special Bible,” he added, “I know you have a lot of Bibles already at the Vatican, but none of them have parts written by Lee Greenwood.”
Meanwhile, in his first official act as pope, Leo ordered a photo of JD Vance posted at the Vatican security desk.
5 minutes if that to watch the announcement. I didn’t have them stare at the screen waiting for over an hour waiting for him.
Yes. As American Roman Catholics they saw the first American pope be announced.
5 minutes. I put it on the screen when the Protodeacon walked out.
Are you accusing me of trying to indoctrinate my students?
A) I’m Protestant
B) My students are RC
C) It was the 5 minutes of the announcement, not an entire period on Popism
D) I presented it as, “If you are interested, here it is.”
Exactly, like if, oh I don’t know, they are putting data into a spreadsheet.
I had it up in my classroom, too, though it is a Catholic school. The white smoke happened just about at the start of my C block class, the students heard it through the grapevine, and asked if I could put up the livestream in the background while they were working on their precalc quiz.
Personally, I’d settle for the Church’s positions mapping to the Church’s positions. Like, for instance, it’s the Church’s position that gender is an immutable property of the soul… which, if examined logically, implies both the existence of transgender people, and that the proper treatment for transgender people is to allow them to change their bodies to match their souls, instead of trying to change their souls to match their bodies.
That’s one position the church could take. As a non Catholic, nonreligious person, I don’t have any particular opinions on the theology in and of itself, only on what outcomes the church holding that theology leads to. So it sounds great to me.
I could imagine a different argument being made, that since God is perfect He would never put a soul of one gender in a body matching the other gender, and anyone who feels that He did do that in their case must be mistaken.
Of course, one could then ask why He would create a soul that feels as if it was placed in a body with a gender that doesn’t match the soul’s own gender (especially as an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent being), but I’m sure someone could come up with a theologically convincing argument for either position.
I can’t really engage with the question of which of the two positions is correct, since as a non Catholic and nonreligious person I think neither is. I can say that I’d prefer your position; but I can’t make any kind of guess as to whether the church would ever adopt that position or not. You may know more than me; is there any reason for optimism?
No, I’m explaining what my concern would be if my (hypothetical) kid came back from school and told me they spent math class watching the election of a religious leader.
If you’re teaching at a Catholic school, then my issue 100% does not apply to your situation.
If you’re teaching in a public school, and it wasn’t relevant to whatever subject you were teaching, well… I don’t love it, but five minutes out of the lesson plan would probably not be worth starting a fight over with the district.
Fortunately my principal who was in the room at the time did.
Let me ask you this, you’re teaching math and the House is electing the President since no one got 270 EVs. You know the vote will take at most 10 minutes. Would you put it on the screen so that interested students could watch it while doing their independent work?