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An American Has One Leg Up At the Vatican 5-8-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. You know how I know
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  Speaker 1: that my dad is still looking as always at us
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  Speaker 1: from above and protecting us and watching over. Same with
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal O'Connor, who we did honor twenty five years ago
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  Speaker 1: today with his funeral, and I was, as a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fin on social media, very honored to be there
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  Speaker 1: and have met the President of at the time, President Clinton.
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  Speaker 1: But this week also marks the two year anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: my dad's memorial. And what a sign that both these
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  Speaker 1: men are with us today. Because the predator, the successor
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  Speaker 1: was it once removed or twice removed for John Cornell O'Connor.
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  Speaker 1: Timothy Dolan was part of a conclave that made history today.
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  Speaker 1: And the history part is only that he's American, the
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  Speaker 1: first American pope and first Pope Leo since Ninethe since
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  Speaker 1: eighteen seventy eight. It comes from Chicago, where my dad's
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  Speaker 1: favorite teams were. And by the way, at the memorial,
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  Speaker 1: we had a Chicago Cubs jersey in his honor. You
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  Speaker 1: can't make it up, and the Cubs are coming to
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  Speaker 1: town this weekend. This is a god sign that an
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  Speaker 1: American pope is elected by the successor twice removed to
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal O'Connor and is from the city that my dad
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  Speaker 1: absolutely loved and absolutely rooted for. And you know by
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  Speaker 1: now the history with the Cubs series we go to
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  Speaker 1: everyone since I was six months old, and we were
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  Speaker 1: almost gonna miss it this weekend, but I think we're
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  Speaker 1: going because this is a sign we have to go.
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  Speaker 1: The first Pope and he's from the city of Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and the Cubs are coming to town this weekend to
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  Speaker 1: face the Mets. You know, last year when we went
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  Speaker 1: to Mets Cubs there was a birthday I kid you
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  Speaker 1: not to someone named Papa Wan and I thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's a sign my dad's with us again this year.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's even more proof and it is emotional
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  Speaker 1: because here's here's them on my dad. Okay, he was
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  Speaker 1: a Lutheran. His church was Lutheran New Jersey. We all
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  Speaker 1: know that. We all go Jepper Lutheran where I got
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  Speaker 1: h with the first communion there and baptized. But he
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  Speaker 1: also wanted to expose me to all the different religions.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Saint John the Divine for Easter, and he made
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Cathedral a place like a home for me.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to Cardinal O'Connor, where we would meet him on
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  Speaker 1: the steps of the cathedral almost every parade. There are
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  Speaker 1: a few pictures out there, and that tradition will continue
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  Speaker 1: with Egan and Cardinal Dolan. By the way, why I
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  Speaker 1: say Dolan shoul throughout the first pitch this weekend at
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  Speaker 1: any of the Mets Cubs games, not only because he
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  Speaker 1: was part of a conclave that elected the first American
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  Speaker 1: pope from Chicago. By the way, Prevosts the Pope's real
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  Speaker 1: last name is Prevost. Colleges have a Provost, So I
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  Speaker 1: think we're electing a pretty wise person to the papalcy
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  Speaker 1: and something that's needed, and there is hope that he
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  Speaker 1: could unite some of the divisions of the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 1: But my dad, being Lutheran, exposed me to the same
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  Speaker 1: Patrick's got me in the door at Saint Patrick's twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years later, after remembering the funeral and remembering the
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  Speaker 1: times where yes, Cardinal O'Connor did ask me to pray
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  Speaker 1: for him, gave me his rosary. I remember like it
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  Speaker 1: was yesterday, a winter of nineteen ninety eight, Christmas Day
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight as a matter of fact, and then
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  Speaker 1: of course he would do his final midnight Mass a
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  Speaker 1: year later, which we were also fortunate to go to.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just it's it's amazing. And so the point
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  Speaker 1: being is that on a daylight today, where we have
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  Speaker 1: in just two days a pope selected, where we have
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  Speaker 1: New York City a electing a pope through Cardinal Dolan.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people like myself would
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  Speaker 1: have loved if Cardinal Dolan became pope. He was a favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he was in the mix, wasn't he.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sure he voted not for himself but for
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal Prevosts to become Pope Leo the fourteenth. So that
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  Speaker 1: is why I feel like New York City is responsible.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, do you know he was one of
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  Speaker 1: nine cardinals, if I'm not mistaken, from the States to
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  Speaker 1: vote in the conclave nine or ten. A very small
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  Speaker 1: portion of America had the privilege of having their cardinal
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  Speaker 1: represent their city, and we were one of those cities.
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  Speaker 1: We should be proud of Cardinal Dolan. Tonight that on
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  Speaker 1: the anniversary twenty five years later where we you know,
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  Speaker 1: where there was a burial of his predecessor, Cardinal O'Connor,
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  Speaker 1: He votes for an American And I know John Cardinal
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  Speaker 1: O'Connor has to be smiling down right now at all
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  Speaker 1: of this. And yes, because his successor twice removed, made
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  Speaker 1: this happen, voted this in. I mean there were one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three cardinals, only one from New York City,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure that one's vote made a difference today
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  Speaker 1: or I guess six hours seven hours later in Rome.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday their time. And as I wrote on social media,
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  Speaker 1: and I might have said, yesterday installed popes in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: Now three cardinals and I'm in the age of thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: It's all God wins. It's all aligned here, and I
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  Speaker 1: will say this. I will say this, it's now an
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  Speaker 1: American pope that will take over. And I'm giving the
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  Speaker 1: sports related a bit where Aaron Judges, captain of Team
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  Speaker 1: USA Baseball, and I actually got a picture of Aaron
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  Speaker 1: praying in center field. Tell me, not everything's in alignment
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  Speaker 1: for this country. Tell me that as sacrilegious as the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States, pope sy that he was
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  Speaker 1: the pope, what if he was sending a message to
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  Speaker 1: vote an American in. That's what I've been starting to
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  Speaker 1: think about maybe that was the message. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They can be debated. Sorry, I love you, you're wrong
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  Speaker 1: about that, But I do believe there was a manifestation
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  Speaker 1: with that dumb Ai image that yes led to an
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  Speaker 1: American being voted as the pope. Now interesting enough, you
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  Speaker 1: know he speaks four languages. So four languages I believe
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  Speaker 1: it's English, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Very impressive. He did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of his ministry work and missionary work in Peru,
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  Speaker 1: so he The deal is he was born and raised
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, but at a very young age he went
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  Speaker 1: off to do mission trips, ended up in Peru. And
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  Speaker 1: actually he's only been a cardinal. This is interesting for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years now. It's not been too long
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  Speaker 1: that I've heard. So it's a fairly recently installed cardinal
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  Speaker 1: now becoming the pope. And maybe it was time that
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  Speaker 1: an American runs the Catholic Church of the Vatican. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we will see differences. I gotta give Joe Piscopal credit
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  Speaker 1: for what I'm about to say, because he brought this
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  Speaker 1: up the other day. As much as it is interesting
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  Speaker 1: that the Vatican has a gift shop and they do
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  Speaker 1: take a lot of collections across the country. Why not
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  Speaker 1: shift some of these fundings now to causes like keeping
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  Speaker 1: Catholic schools open. I mean, my friend was only in
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  Speaker 1: bay Ridge. Four Catholic schools are now one. How is
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  Speaker 1: that even functioning? I mean, they've got to bring back
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  Speaker 1: to do right by kids that are raised Catholic, the
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  Speaker 1: Catholic schools to give parents that choice. The funding needs
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  Speaker 1: to be there, and I would like this pope although
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  Speaker 1: judging by his ex feed although maybe you can't judge
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  Speaker 1: that by what he's posting about, he has been anti
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  Speaker 1: you know, White House and administration. But maybe he will
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  Speaker 1: be able to, as I said early, unite the church
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  Speaker 1: and be a political as much as possible and just
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  Speaker 1: preach what the Gospel says. I think that's really the
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  Speaker 1: main goal of the pope and of any religious leader.
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  Speaker 1: But twenty five years later, after honoring and burying Cardinal O'Connor,
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  Speaker 1: an American pope is elected by the current Saint Patrick's Cathedral,
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal Cardinal Dolan. And I didn't realize he's seventy five.
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  Speaker 1: Bishop Leo is actually sixty nine, So you might be
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  Speaker 1: there for twenty years. If track records seem to be
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  Speaker 1: holding here. Remember Francis passed eighty eight, so maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: this pope will be in for twenty years. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: to see how longevity goes. But an American and yes,
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  Speaker 1: and yet I've said it, I'll say it publicly here
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  Speaker 1: if the Knicks somehow pull off a miraculous postseason run
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  Speaker 1: with the Nova Knicks, and maybe this pope should be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to the party at City Hall and the popemobile
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  Speaker 1: down in the Canton of Heroes. Stop it's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: This is such a sacred day. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: because it's an American, because it's Chicago, everybody turned this
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  Speaker 1: into more of a celebration and a meme than what's
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  Speaker 1: really happening here, which is an American actually religious, actually
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  Speaker 1: has one leg up at the Vatican as pope. But
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  Speaker 1: stop it now as pope, and I do pray, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that these cardinals did wisely and prayerfully elected
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  Speaker 1: this pope. Is that word, Yes it is, And I
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  Speaker 1: pray that this election and this conclave of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five will lead to bigger and better things, not just
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  Speaker 1: for the Catholic Church. I mean this is a religious
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  Speaker 1: figure for everyone, a global religious figure, and even Francis
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  Speaker 1: was able to not convert obviously, but attract those who
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  Speaker 1: are agnostic, or as he was able to reach people
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  Speaker 1: who may not be entirely religious. And I believe on
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  Speaker 1: that front this Pope needs to continue that. But if
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  Speaker 1: we could do it in ways, if you could do
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  Speaker 1: it in ways that are yes, American and probably a
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  Speaker 1: little Chicago in him too and more so. And I
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  Speaker 1: hate saying the word biblical, but text base and not
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  Speaker 1: try and delve into all the political issues of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Just focus on changing the world through the word while
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  Speaker 1: keeping that smile on his face, Like I mean, Pope
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  Speaker 1: Francis every bee roll you see, he's smiling. I love
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  Speaker 1: that about Pope Francis too, and I hope this Pope
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  Speaker 1: can be that but also be on point on mission.
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  Speaker 1: He seems to have been born a missionary because of
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  Speaker 1: his experience. Now his mission has just expanded, and as
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  Speaker 1: that mission expands, I pray so to do the horizons
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  Speaker 1: and the outlook of the Catholic Church of unity even
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  Speaker 1: between Christians and Catholics, and maybe just a unity across
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  Speaker 1: the board here, because like a president, this Pope is
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  Speaker 1: inheriting two major major wars, and I understand Pope John
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  Speaker 1: Paul the Second had to say in the tearing down
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  Speaker 1: of the Berlin Wall, and one of this Pope can
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  Speaker 1: be an influence for peace, and we can get the
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  Speaker 1: prosperity eventually, but peace and unity and just stopping the
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  Speaker 1: infighting that seems to be going on all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: And on that I will say Amen, Amen, and may
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  Speaker 1: God bless Pope Leo the fourteenth as a new era,
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  Speaker 1: an American era, begins at the Vatican