I’ll take “commie plants” for $200 Alex...
If he’s a commie plant he was grown in a South American greenhouse owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Church and it’s full of a whole bunch of other commie plants exactly like him. Why, might one ask, would the Roman Catholic Church be elevating such individuals through the hierarchy, and all the way to Pope? It doesn’t seem as if the faithful within her are capable of answering that question in a realistic manner.