Article: With white smoke now billowing from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, it's clear the voting process has concluded and the cardinals have chosen a successor to Pope Francis. We don't yet know who has been selected, but it will become clear when they emerge on the balcony of the Sistine Chapel, likely within the hour. Stick with us and we'll let you know who it is, as soon as we have confirmation.
That's probably gonna be the case this time. The Catholic church is a conservative institution. That should be expected.
You mean Pierbattista Pizzaballa?
He's not conservative. He was picked to keep Trump from having a monopoly on power in the US. That's why the voting happened so fast.
I guess we're in for a few years of people declaring that the pope is gaslighting them.
I'm not Catholic, so it doesn't matter to me what he says, but most of the Supreme Court is Catholic, so he is going to have a noticeable impact on policy going forward. This was a simple check done by the oldest political body in the world.
The state of gaslighting in 2025.
