SinisterSlay posted...
There's an American Pope? I didn't know that was possible
Of course it's possible. Jesus was American, after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kcpP-8jfM
KJ_StErOiDs posted...
Wouldve never expected another Pope from the Americas so soon, much less one from the U.S.
It's where a lot of the Catholics are these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_by_country
Hispanics are one of the largest demographics still strongly devout. Europeans have been drifting more towards atheism or agnosticism (or converting to/importing other faiths) over the last few decades (not to mention the places where Protestantism basically replaced it). There
are
still European Catholics, but proportionally there's a
HUGE
chunk of the church in The Americas, and you can't really risk alienating them completely by totally ignoring them.
The other major outlier is The Philippines.