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[–] daskye@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

???? Is he even a candidate?

[–] console@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In this case I get it. I really get it.

[–] console@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, we do live in the darkest timeline

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Fun fact if he was baptized as a catholic he is eligible.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, there is precedent. Some random Catholic who wasn't even a priest got selected after a conclave had been stuck in political deadlock for literal years. He couldn't actually take the job till he was ordained, which he did. He immediately instituted a bunch of rules including locking them away together with no luxuries until a decision was made to make sure that problem didn't happen again. (It happened again multiple times anyway.)