Some facts about the new Pope…
- The first non-European Pope in 1,272 years
- The first Pope from the Americas
- The first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere
- The first Latin-American Pope
- The first Jesuit Pope (which must be sending the conspiracy theorists into a state of nervous collapse…)
- Is not named Peter (so much for Saint Malachy then…)
- Has had some surprisingly decent things to say about the divide between rich and poor
- Has said all the expected ultra-conservative things about women, homosexuality, contraception and abortion
- May have been involved with kidnappings and other nefarious acts by the Argentinian Government
- Isn’t likely to be terribly different to any other Pope ever
