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A White Socks fan in the Vatican
American Thinker ^ | May 10, 2025 | Frank Friday

Posted on 05/10/2025 7:00:24 AM PDT by NorthernDancer

Now comes the amazing news from the brother that the new Pope is a genuine White Sox fan, as are all the kindly old school priests and sisters south of I-55, on into Indiana and Michigan. That’s a huge point in his favor and it appears he frequently voted in the Republican primaries in Illinois (that state does not have specific party registrations)….

Apparently, Pope Leo XIV has no hostility to the Latin Mass, while Pope Francis hated it. His public comments also indicate he has no interest in pushing the homosexual agenda or ordaining women. These are all things conservative Catholics care about and which the Pope controls.

On things he doesn’t control -- immigration, global warming, American politics, etc. -- I expect a lot of rhetoric to warm the cockles of the international media. That’s a compromise most Catholics can readily accept.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: church; leo; magapope; pope

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Starting to feel a little better about this Pope.
1 posted on 05/10/2025 7:00:24 AM PDT by NorthernDancer
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To: NorthernDancer

Even the Vatican cannot save the White Sox.

But at least they aren’t as bad as the Rockies.


2 posted on 05/10/2025 7:03:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NorthernDancer

I’m not, I’m a Cubs fan.🤨


3 posted on 05/10/2025 7:04:01 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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When he starts excommunicating politicians who support and promote abortion, then he's acting like a real Catholic leader.

After that, he can take back control of the Catholic Church in China from the commies.

4 posted on 05/10/2025 7:17:22 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: NorthernDancer

he doesn’t give a sh#t about baseball.

He’s a communist plant that’s been groomed in South America to take the place of another communist bent on the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church.

He’ll mouth the “anti-abortion” BS but he’ll be all about “no borders”, open immigration, “tolerance of the wayward” sexual deviants, get rid of Catholic traditions so we can become “more inclusive” and “more modern”.

That’s why mass sounds like an audition for a musical and doesn’t have any semblance of honoring God but of honoring man.

They are going bankrupt hopefully and then we’ll see all the roaches come out.


5 posted on 05/10/2025 7:18:52 AM PDT by Dick Vomer ( (2 Timothy 4:7 "deo duce ferro comitantes" <p><b></B><P> <img src="">)
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To: NorthernDancer

6 posted on 05/10/2025 7:23:14 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: telescope115

Cubs in first.

Cards in second.

And Harry’s grandson is calling the Cards’ games.

Cubs fans may be having painful flashbacks.

The Cardinals are coming, trala, trala.


7 posted on 05/10/2025 7:31:29 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: dfwgator

White Socks?
This guy probably hangs out with that other ‘Socks’ fan, homobama, down at Cominsky Field.


8 posted on 05/10/2025 7:34:26 AM PDT by skimbell
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This guy probably hangs out with that other ‘Socks’ fan, homobama, down at Cominsky Field.


And goes to Packers games at Lambert Field.


9 posted on 05/10/2025 7:35:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: skimbell

And is a big fan of Mike McGwire and Sammy Sooser.


10 posted on 05/10/2025 7:35:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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11 posted on 05/10/2025 7:37:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: skimbell

Good catch! No real Southsider would EVER say “Socks” - Quick way to smoke out an intruder - Go Go Sox!


12 posted on 05/10/2025 7:38:25 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Biblebelter

Like the Football Cardinals, he left Chicago.


13 posted on 05/10/2025 7:39:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EC Washington

Best sign ever at a Sox game, when Cubs fans were jumping on the Sox bandwagon:

“Die, Yuppie Scum! Go back to Wrigley!”


14 posted on 05/10/2025 7:40:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: telescope115

In that case the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod will welcome you! Leo is Augustinian, Luther before the reformation was an Augustinian monk. Come on in, the water is fine!
Sola Scriptura


15 posted on 05/10/2025 7:44:46 AM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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Even the Vatican cannot save the White Sox.

Yes but God did send Bill Veeck to the White Sox. He was born in 1914, grew up in Hinsdale, and first owned the White Sox before my time - buying them in 1959 and leading them to a Pennant. He brought the exploding scoreboard to Comiskey. He sold his ownership interest in the White Sox in 1961 (He had health issues at that time. Many years later I wound up sitting near him in the center field bleachers at Wrigley where he was taking in a Cub game. He was in shorts, copping sunshine with his exposed prosthetic leg).

He came back to the White Sox as owner when I was a young kid, in I think 1975. He wasn't able to deliver a World Series, but he did give us a few incredible summers with 'rent a players' like Richie Zisk, and Oscar Gamble (the Gamble deal included sending a certain 'Bucky Dent' to the Yankees). The White Sox won 90 games in 1977, finishing 3rd. They would sometimes lose games despite scoring a ton of runs (I think they lost once 13-10 or something like that). It was a fun time as a kid, and I remember getting Chicago beef subs at McCuddy's on game days. Veeck was one of a kind, an I do think God sent him for all of us South Siders back in those days.

Anyway, although I also have been a Cub fan, I'm glad we got a Pope before them.

16 posted on 05/10/2025 7:45:00 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: NorthernDancer

I HATE baseball.

Like reading War and Peace, in the sun, on ants and sand.


17 posted on 05/10/2025 7:46:36 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: neverevergiveup

I remember when the Cubs won the WS, almost all of the sports channels said it was Chicago’s first WS win since 1918. They totally ignored 2005, they even commemorated the Bears and Blackhawks titles, and ignored the White Sox.

The Chicago Cubs’ 2016 World Series parade and rally drew an estimated 5 million fans, while the 2005 White Sox parade drew an estimated 1.2 million.


18 posted on 05/10/2025 7:48:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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LOL, my big complaint is that I have only seen one Cub game so far this season. The Marquee Network has a near- monopoly on Cubs TV broadcasts. I don’t have a cable provider that carries Marquee. We used to have Comcast-Xfinity, but they priced themselves right out of our budget.

The Cubs-Cards rivalry is a good one! I only wish I could see it….

19 posted on 05/10/2025 7:50:37 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: NorthernDancer

Who would have guessed that our new Pope is a registered Republican, even though a RINO at that.


20 posted on 05/10/2025 7:59:58 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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