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They now call him Pope Leo.

His friends call him Bob.

He's now the major figure in a global religion.

In college, he was a major in math at Villanova.

He comes from Chicago and admits to being a White Sox fan.

Maybe that proves he's really for the downtrodden.

The White Sox last year became the first team in baseball history

to lose 121 games, officially the worst team ever. You all know the farmer,

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo, the 14th, is the first American Pope. Politico has an article,

Leo is America's first pope. His worldview appears at odds with America first. Steve Bannon called Leo the worst pick for MAGA

Catholics. That's a quote in that political article. Relevant to that, perhaps, here's a clip of Bishop

Robert Barron from Minnesota, who just last week got appointed by President Trump to Trump's

Commission on Religious Liberty on what it might say about the condition of this country if there's an American Pope.

Well, you know, Cardinal George of Chicago of Happy Memory was one of my great mentors.

And he said, look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American Pope.

Whoa, Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota.

Now, he said that before Pope Leo was announced. I wonder if he would have said it out loud

if he thought they might actually pick an American Pope. For the record, though, we should say

the new Pope's record on women in the church and LGBTQ issues is not all that progressive. We'll get into that too. We'll talk to

two guests in just a minute. But I also want to open up the phones right away. One local

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