Hello and welcome to Broconomics. It is Pope season again, where we will be selecting a new Pope.

Now, I think this is quite interesting because the base of Catholicism is going a very different way to the current leadership of Catholicism.

So for me, this is a fairly important bellwether moment in what direction, at least one element of the global leadership goes, being

leadership of 1.4 billion people. So I think it's significant. Now, this is going to be a primer

on all matters popery. We are going to be covering the current situation, how the Vatican stands today, and also, of course, a bit of the classical

stuff. How did we get here? Now, I don't know anything about the classical stuff, but Bo does.

Hello, Bo. Hey, all right.

Hello, Bo. Well, thank you for coming on.

Yeah, no. I'll get me chatting about history, even ancient history. Yes. Love it.

Well, there's definitely a bit of Roman stuff in here.

That's definitely a bit I'd like to cover.

But yeah, you kind of see where I'm going with this, is that, you know, Catholicism is in declining Europe, very much so.

It's growing like a weed in Africa, and they're very orthodox.

Latin America has declined a bit, but, you know, they're still quite orthodox.

Apparently it's growing in Asia.

Just to make a differentiation between orthodox and Catholic, because some people, when you say

Orthodox, they think...

Oh, orthodoxy, as in, yes, as in traditional...

Not Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, or Russian Orthodox, not that, not that, right, yeah.

I mean, that might also be growing, I don't know.

You know, I mean, like the Philippines, I've been reading recently a fair bit, as I, as I, you might imagine I would,

been reading all about MacArthur, of all things.

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