When the white smoke appeared on top of the Sustaine Chapel, I immediately. He turned my television on, because I wanted to see who would be the new Pope, and then crowded on social media, because I knew that the Internet could tell me about the new pope much faster than television. They, and the memes will be good.
Mems, first, naturally, with Pope Francis flying much harder and faster than it, because the new Pope was American. Not only that – from Robert Francis Prost, who were now Pope Liu XIV Chicago, With a geo -filled with cultural touch stones, the American Mem economy immediately. He was caught in: Did the Pope ever commit misconduct? Pope had a cubes or a Soxy fan? Was God going to intercede for Nixes in the NBA Play Office because the Pope graduated from Vilanova? The next wave of information, I was skeptical, was going to create news and articles about its upbringing, animal history and religious stance – things that tell the world what kind of leader this new pope would be.
And then someone who followed the screenshot from the X account posted a screenshot with @drapest: Three retweets, in the past three months, which have been linked to articles that have strongly criticized Donald Trump’s immigration policy. True, he himself was not direct words from the Cardinal Preoast at that time, but he was still a symbol of life and intentions: a short, unorganized moment, a marker he was active and busy, who spoke volumes about the inner ideas of the new Pope. I think he didn’t have time to wipe his society, I thought earlier, knowing that a giant mega political reaction was on the horizon. The Pope has only one hour – if he – between being selected and displaying in front of the world. Certainly There is not enough time to ensure that its timeline is clean.
And then I stopped. Wait Why am I thinking about the Pope is cleaning his timelines?
I am not Catholic, and did not grow up. The best description of my religious affiliation is probably the “ended Buddha”. But I have always been interesting by the Catholic Church as an institution: its deep history, its extensive theology, its artistic influence and social dominance, internal politics and the external diplomacy of modern Vatican. I sometimes joke that I treat the Catholic religion in the same way and make it exterior, the way white men make Japan immoral, but my focus is sincere: I wonder if somehow, the Vatican has maintained its concept in the modern age.
That is why I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that less than two hours in his Papisi, I learned more about the Pope through his digital footprint that I had filtered through the Vatican Press Release or interviewed with his friends and family.
I learned from his retweets (and talks around Retaws) that he supported gun -control legislation and Syrian refugees, opposed the DACA’s cancellation, condemned the 2017 massacre in Charlotsville, and demanded Trump to support climate change. I learned that he wrote a book on religious figures (available at JSTOR). I learned from a post that he was a registered Republican, just after moments to learn that Illinois do not have partnership voters registration. ( Washington Free Bacon According to the reports that Liu XIV has voted in Republican primary before.) If anyone posted a screenshot of the Pope’s Vanmo Translation, I am not surprised.
And then I encountered some more intimate: Pope Liu XIV’s personal Facebook profile.
I didn’t even need to dig for it. A friend of mine who was educated in Augusti High School sent to me, because it was apparently going viral among those who were educated in agency educational institutions, because everyone who ever went to Augusty school in the United States, somehow knows anyone who knows it. Robert Prahost’s Account Currently Private-Jungle, because 68-year-old children are Rarely Set your Facebook accounts privately in terms of default – but a public photo is available: Future Pope Liu XIV, Avators and a black wind breaker, on top of a pony. This is there a meme, Thought my horrible, ground, secular mind.
Without thinking about it, I copied the link and passed myself offensive, before it sent it to the group chat. Whether or not, it was a private account of a person who had some limit to private life when he got out of bed this morning, and he did not expect the Pope to be selected. Anyone who minimized the ambitions of becoming a spiritual leader of 1.4 billion people worldwide, minimal, Probably Make sure his societies were safe – Its 172 Facebook friends were masked from the rest of the world, or that their retweets will not start diplomatic fire with a stupid president or more vice president since 2017 – before he surrendered his electronic devices into pebbles.
I don’t think I would stop sending this social media profile if it belonged to someone else: a politician, a celebrity, a fellow I didn’t know well, a blind history that I needed to examine. And it can be made a strong argument that mining of any public figure’s digital activity is a fair game, especially if he is a political leader, to some extent with accountability. Vanmo’s applications are enough to tank the Congressman’s career. Old tweets can land in warm water in the present era. Finding the Fox News Anchor’s phone number linked to a public Google Review account can identify a massive national security crisis.
The moment you try to apply this criteria Pope Fraking, However, logic is just to stop – not because a global leader should not hold this standard, but because it is totally surprising that anyone can eliminate the societies of Christ. In fact, it is surprising to think that a religious figure Can make Their internet history is the target of examining, or that they have something like inodin -like digital influence – especially in the inheritance of a character that is speculated and it was established by St. Peter Rasool, whose predecessors are the rulers of the ancient saints and the Middle Ages, and according to the agriculture, and the agriculture.
It may be that the Pope’s madness is a unique secular, American method of guessing an American Pope – under his leadership, not by leading his ministerial work in St. Augustine or Peru, but through his voting record, sports loyalty, or the key to the president. (We Are A very tribal nation that thinks about things only through the lens of being an American.) Now we are collectively engaged in mining for the sidewalks of Pope Liu XIV’s former life, because we are trying to select its name and the choice of it coming before thirteen Lewis. Whether or not, the digital history of a religious personality is now something that exists.
