How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope

27 nxobject 8 5/11/2025, 5:10:13 PM nytimes.com ↗

Comments (8)

wavemode · 18h ago
tobr · 18h ago
> ”Bob, this could be proposed to you”

That’s incredible. The new pope is called Bob. I will only refer to him as Pope Bob I.

throw310822 · 17h ago
Bob's twitter account is still online. Used sparingly and mostly for retweets, but used:

"Catholic, Augustinian, Bishop"

Currently in Rome.

https://x.com/drprevost

pwdisswordfishz · 17h ago
And the official Vatican account, @Pontifex, went back to being attributed to Francis, after briefly being named "Apostolica Sedes Vacans".

I suppose it makes more sense than the total mess that is @eucopresident, where past tweets are retroactively attributed to the current officeholder.

nxobject · 6h ago
Most importantly, title is in Spanish!
em3rgent0rdr · 15h ago
Just like that, Bob's your uncle and Holy father.
Tsiklon · 13h ago
I’m a lapsed catholic. I look forward to seeing how the new Pope chooses to use his position. I saw Francis as a decent, respectable man, and especially took heart in his and the church’s recent rational missive on AI.

Leo XIV has to rise to one of the greatest organisational challenges anyone could face in the current day; managing this Leviathan institution through a minefield that’s ever shifting, the consequences for gaffes and misspokenness are very real and enormous.

fakedang · 13h ago
Considering Pope Bob I's the only pope with a very active online history, I wouldn't call him "quiet". Especially with him being an anti-MAGA critic of the current US regime, as his post and comment history on X shows.