or one as essential as the American-Peruvian Leo has turned out to be as a counter to Trumpian fascism and world criminality but I had kind of liked the idea of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle from the Phillipines becoming Pope.
This article about a tell-all book about the conclave that elected Leo - who is turning out to be an excellent Pope in many ways, though one who I have some major disagreemtnts with - has this titbit of gossip in what may have sunk Tagle's cause.
O'Connell also cites sources as later saying that the backlash over a video of Tagle singing karaoke to John Lennon's "Imagine" that had circulated online ahead of the conclave "caused many of his would‑be supporters to reconsider and abandon him."
I'm assuming it wasn't because the Cardinal electors know a really lousy song when they hear one. And I'm assuming it wasn't the smart mop-head's insincere imagining of "no possessions" but the rote, Brit, anti-religious content that got them. Though I'd have marked him down for the music too.
Damned song, who knows what might have been if Tagle had sung "You Light Up My Life" or some crappy show tune instead. Though if it was Andrew Lloyd Webber, I'd disqualify him too.
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