Leo, parish orphans and retrogrades.

Pope Leo the 14th, an American, the first ever American Pope, elected at the beginning of the summer, end of the spring, under weird circumstances where everyone who elected him at the conclave was a Francis liberal.

He had a close friendship with Francis and the other liberals under Francis who elected him.

Not much else was known about him, but he had a liberal ranking.

And yet everyone in the Catholic space, trad, sort of neo-conservative JP2,

lefties was celebrating him.

And at the time, I said, the only people that should be celebrating are the liberals.

And almost no one else said this.

And it wasn't a particularly difficult call.

You cite Cardinal Meridiaga,

Pope Francis's closest collaborator.

Blaise Supich, American icon,

left church, Blaise Supich, who stands in Prevost's old shoes, and James Martin,

S.J., who recently had a meeting with the Pope, and he said it went as well as it had gone under Francis, and other liberals, Austin Ivory, the Pope's personal biographer, all said,

this guy is our guy, and they weren't just saying it after the fact. They were rooting for him

before the fact. And even a lot of the conservatives and trads who the day after he got elected started saying, no, this is good, this is good, this is good.

Had done shows on him saying that he was one of the liberals to watch out for.

I hadn't even gone that deep in the pool of liberals who were papavili.

So I hadn't even gotten to Prevost.

But if I had, I would have looked at the same voting record and friends, because personnel is policy. And I would have said exactly what those

conservatives said in the days leading to the conclave. The day of the conclave, I had a

quick look at the facts once I was

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