There is a new Pope and he is an American! What does this mean for the country and for the kingdom? In this episode of the CharlieKirkShow, we discuss the Pope's voting history, the controversies surrounding him, and what he believes.
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00:01:54.000President Donald Trump was in the Oval Office early this morning, earlier than usual, announcing a historic and record trade deal with the UK.
00:02:03.000President Donald Trump, as you know, has been embarking on a new path for American trade.
00:02:11.000And this is where all the experts were wrong about President Trump, and they were all wrong about what he was doing.
00:02:17.000You see, he was not only using tariffs to try and raise revenue for the federal government.
00:02:22.000He was not just only using tariffs as a way to try to encourage American investment and manufacturing, both of which are happening.
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00:02:36.000Now, mind you, what was announced today is something that Joe Biden was never able to do, Barack Obama was never able to do.
00:02:42.000The United Kingdom, despite being a very close ally of the United States, was a very closed economy.
00:02:48.000And listening carefully to what President Trump announced today, and we're going to play a lot of this tape, it was very clear what President Trump's mentality is when it comes to trade.
00:02:57.000You see, the media, and if you watch CNBC, and if you watch all the talking heads on the economics networks and the financial networks, they're there to make you seem as if President Trump wants to be an isolationist.
00:03:10.000That he doesn't want to trade with the rest of the world.
00:04:16.000Over $6 billion in new tariff revenue, so we're going to be able to Get more tariff revenue to hopefully pay down our deficit and fund our government.
00:05:59.000He's locking in record demand for U.S. goods.
00:06:04.000Tariffs were used to be able to have President Trump cut ribbons on open markets and booming exports.
00:06:12.000And now the real question on everyone's mind is, will President Trump seek a new Vatican trade deal with the new Pope?
00:06:20.000They are a sovereign country with, I will be honest, a fair amount of purchasing power.
00:06:25.000There's a lot of wealth in the Vatican.
00:06:28.000This is a historic moment that you're watching here right now, an announcement of a new Pope, and we're going to be watching that live here.
00:06:33.000We'll just cut straight to the Sistine Chapel or whomever is covering it, or I'll do my best to try to announce this live.
00:06:42.000A lot of celebration happening live on the St. Peter's Basilica Square.
00:07:15.000And look, markets will go up and markets will go down and markets will spin around.
00:07:19.000But now we have unprecedented access to ethanol, beef, cereals, fruits, vegetables, animal feed, tobacco, soft drinks, shellfish, textiles, chemicals, machinery, and more will then be able to be sold more easily in the United Kingdom.
00:07:40.000This is a shorter conclave, and it'll be very interesting the type of pope that will be selected.
00:07:46.000I pray that the new pope is going to be more in the image and the mold of John Paul II than of Pope Francis.
00:07:54.000It's no different than praying that you hope that an election in the United Kingdom goes our way, or hoping that Millet becomes the prime minister of Argentina.
00:08:02.000This is one of the world's most high-profile people, representing two billion human beings.
00:08:08.000It's good for all of humanity to have a pope that believes in the sanctity of life, that believes in traditional marriage, that believes in, hopefully, borders and national sovereignty.
00:08:20.000So we can only hope that this pope is one that shares traditional Catholic values, one that is good for not just Catholics but good for the world.
00:08:30.000John Paul II had a geopolitical influence, larger and greater than...
00:08:37.000Anything that people could have imagined in a truly profound and deep and measurable way.
00:08:45.000So the way this will work is this, is that there will be almost an immediate papal procession.
00:08:50.000And then next Sunday, because they almost always do it on Sunday, next Sunday will likely be the official coronation of the new pope.
00:09:03.000And so they'll invite all the heads of state from around the world.
00:09:06.000And next Sunday will likely be the official ceremony.
00:09:12.000I think of it as kind of like a papal inauguration, if you will.
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00:09:22.000People are rushing to St. Peter's Square right now.
00:09:26.000I might actually throw Blake on the show if Lila, he's our resident Catholic and knows everything that you need to know about this stuff, so I might throw him on here.
00:10:00.000This is one of the reasons why so many young people are becoming Catholic.
00:10:04.000They're becoming Catholic because in a world where everything is changing, they don't want to go to church in a Costco, and they don't want to hear some pastor's opinion that might change week to week.
00:10:15.000They want something ancient, they want something beautiful, and they want tradition.
00:10:21.000And the Catholic Church has a lot of things I don't agree with, and some things I certainly don't like, but one of the things I do value about the Catholic Church is they haven't changed.
00:10:33.000They're very honest about who they are and what they believe, and they have uncompromising principles.
00:10:39.000That liturgy is very similar, if not Vatican I especially, but to the original way that the early church worshipped.
00:11:24.000They don't want to just look at themselves through a phone all day long.
00:11:28.000I'm hopeful that there is a spiritual reset and I'm praying and I'm hopeful that this Pope understands the times that we are in and that there is one of the greatest growth opportunities for Christianity that we'll ever find right now.
00:11:43.000There is a growth opportunity in the West because the West is suffering under its own weight.
00:11:49.000Suffering under suicide and depression and anxiety.
00:11:54.000We've been talking about a golden age for America.
00:11:57.000Perhaps if it is the Lord's will, and if we are obedient, maybe it's a golden age for Christianity and for higher purposes.
00:12:06.000And perhaps the new pope can be a big part of that.
00:12:10.000Where this pope can proclaim that there are two sexes.
00:12:13.000That this transgenderism thing is from the pit of hell.
00:12:17.000That children are made in the image of God in the Imago Dei.
00:12:24.000At its best, the Pope should stand up against the excesses of the Western secular world and something that Pope Francis, I don't think, did very well, and I'm not here to attack him, but also to fight against Islam infiltrating the West.
00:12:41.000My prayer is that this Pope understands the woke green axis that is trying to envelop and suffocate the Western world.
00:12:52.000This pope needs to speak out against the rise of Mohammedism, speaking out against the butchery of our children through gender-affirming care, to stop the cultural suicide.
00:13:04.000And if he, as this pope, does this, I will be his biggest supporter, and Catholics will see an even bigger harvest of young people that want to become Christian.
00:13:17.000Protestants have very little moral clarity right now.
00:13:51.000From woke pastors to gay pride flags outside of many of our churches, to the BLM marches, to the pro-choice stuff, to the pro-trans stuff, to the silence during COVID.
00:14:02.000And this younger generation says, the Protestant church has lost all of my trust.
00:14:06.000And it's very hard for me to tell them otherwise, except for the exceptions.
00:14:11.000The ideology that has ruled the West since the end of World War II is crumbling.
00:14:15.000And there is a huge opening for alternatives.
00:14:19.000But some people will join Islam just for that reason.
00:14:22.000But a muscular, forceful, firm Catholic church could out-compete them.
00:14:33.000And you should too, regardless if you are Catholic, because it is good for the West and it's good for all of humanity to understand what we are up against.
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00:17:20.000It was Pope Pius over and over and over again throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, so I think the most recent was Pius XII, but almost all of those were in the past 200, 300 years.
00:18:38.000There was a mass crowd that just ran to the square, gently pushing and shoving, I might add, but people were respectful, aware of the moment.
00:18:47.000Charlie, I heard that you're sponsoring free lunches for all Catholics.
00:18:53.000Just from a spiritual sense, I do think, you know, people in the square, whether you're Catholic, Christian, whatever, there's a certain sense of the return of the Father, right?
00:19:04.000This representative, Catholics seem that, in that way, imperfect though we might be.
00:19:10.000And we're waiting for that man, that anticipation to come out, to stand on that loja.
00:19:15.000And to give us his paternal fatherly blessing.
00:20:53.000And I'm very happy to see the whole world paying attention right now with excitement about who's going to be elected to be this father, really, for people of faith.
00:21:03.000I mean, he is, of course, the Pope for the Catholic Church, but I think Christians of all backgrounds look to the moral clarity.
00:21:10.000So no matter who it is, we're going to have a pro-life pope, and it's just a question of his different personality, his different approach.
00:21:17.000But either way, God's got it, and it's going to be great.
00:21:40.000So the fact that there's a decision this quick, you know, it can mean that, you know, one of the frontrunners who we were expecting got the number of votes.
00:21:50.000So, you know, we're all here in anticipation, waiting.
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00:26:06.000At the end of the day, the Pope is true blue a Christian, and so you might look at him through a certain lens of American politics or European politics, but he's going to stand for the moral teachings of the Christian faith, and that's what his job is, to stand up for Jesus Christ, even when it's politically popular or not.
00:29:41.000He's going to be pro-life no matter who he is, so I'm not worried about that.
00:29:44.000And that's the confidence we have as Catholics, is that this Holy Father is going to be true north on moral teachings and the theological foundations of our Christian faith.
00:29:54.000And that's the gift that we have in a Holy Father who, by the Holy Spirit's power, not his own power, by the Holy Spirit's power, is going to guide the church.
00:30:02.000And that's why the Catholic Church has never changed its teachings on things like abortion, on marriage, on these core theological doctrines.
00:30:16.000We are launching new investigative reports exposing the abortion industry.
00:30:21.000That's our job as Christians, to stand up and speak out for the most vulnerable.
00:30:24.000And we urge President Trump, you know, who has been outspoken against the transgender agenda, to defund Planned Parenthood because they're transing young people.
00:30:39.000So this is a time for action, both for Christians to pray for our new Holy Father and I believe for people of faith to call for the administration to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:30:48.000We should absolutely defund Planned Parenthood.
00:32:25.000If you're getting one out very quickly, it's probably they were able to pretty quickly have the different wings of the church agree on some sort of, sometimes they'll say compromise pick or just consensus pick or a choice who's not going to rock the boat too much in one direction or the other.
00:32:42.000John, what comment do you have on this?
00:32:44.000Can you also speak to the international aspect here?
00:32:48.000I'm seeing flags from all over the planet.
00:32:50.000Talk about how there are people from all over the world that are gathering at St. Peter's Basilica and Square.
00:32:57.000There are, and this kind of builds on Lila's point.
00:33:00.000I mean, yes, on the fundamental issues of faith and morality, the Pope's not going to err.
00:34:10.000And, you know, whoever that man is, because of the short bandwidth, like you said, I do expect one of the frontrunners who we expected to be elected might show up there.
00:34:23.000So it's some very interesting times, which we're going to find out the next kind of, like you just said, seven to ten years of a plan or program for the Church of Evangelization through the person that they choose.
00:35:13.000St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Basilica, the dome designed and built by Michelangelo himself, the head of the Catholic Church, as the faithful await to find the name of the next vicar of Christ, the next descendant, successor of St. Peter, the next pope.
00:35:47.000So, I mean, you're looking, squares completely packed.
00:35:50.000Now, what you can see on camera is the Via Conciliazione, which is the main street that goes from St. Peter's all the way down to the Tiber River.
00:36:00.000That street was actually put in there by President Mussolini in 1929 as a gift to the Vatican.
00:36:07.000To kind of create some grandeur and a view, etc.
00:36:10.000Well, that street is completely packed all the way down to the Tiber River.
00:36:15.000So you're looking at probably nearing 100,000 people.
00:38:52.000As Catholics are ecstatic, coming out, waiting, the white smoke went up just about 45 minutes ago, give or take, and the square is flooded.
00:39:02.000We're going to see at least 60,000 people here.
00:39:05.000Barricades have come down, the Carbonari, the Italian police, the Vatican police, they're just letting people in.
00:39:11.000My brother Kevin is actually, they made a big mistake and they gave him a press pass.
00:39:16.000So Kevin is actually up on the roof of the Vatican columns right now getting footage.
00:39:22.000He doesn't have a signal, but we're going to have that footage as soon We're all waiting for the announcement of the next pope.
00:39:31.000We'll be walking out of that balcony very, very soon.
00:40:59.000You know, Charlie, one thing I'm definitely guilty of, and I suppose I'll have to bring up my next confession, is that I've always kind of been, you know, focused on the next mission.
00:41:09.000And, you know, it's interesting you ask me a question like that, because something my wife brings up often, she said, you really need to take time to step back and think about it.
00:41:16.000And I'll just say, as a kid who grew up in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, John Paul II was the Pope, but, you know, the Pope really only comes to America.
00:41:24.000Very rarely, a couple of times during a papacy, usually like literally one or two when I say a couple.
00:41:30.000So the thought that I would actually be in Rome, walking the streets of the Holy City, walking through St. Peter's Square like this, it's absolutely surreal.
00:41:54.000Never thought in a million years that I'd be part of something like this, which is absolute history and is really going to set the stage for the trajectory, not just for Catholics, but for Western civilization writ large.
00:42:08.000Yeah, so Charlie just stepped out for a second here.
00:42:10.000We could be getting the Pope literally any second at this point.
00:42:28.000You know, I'd love to see another Pope, Pius.
00:42:31.000John Paul III, you know, that'd be kind of interesting, following in the footsteps of John Paul II.
00:42:36.000It's been a while since we've had a Linus.
00:42:39.000You know, I've always actually been a fan of Pope Linus II.
00:42:42.000He doesn't usually get as much filling, of course, as some of the others, but I've always been a real student of his papacy.
00:42:50.000We've even had a Pope Valentine, so we could have a Pope Valentine II.
00:42:54.000Yeah, I think personally, I'd love to see another Pope Pius XIII, I believe, would be the next one.
00:43:01.000And I think that would be just a way to continue the traditional line within the church, as opposed to a pope that would be going more in the vein of Francis, the Jesuit modernist line.
00:43:13.000And a lot of people are saying, Blake, that because the pope was chosen on this fourth ballot very early, so you've had not even...
00:43:21.000Really not even, just 24 hours of the conflate from when it began until now, 24 hours of voting.
00:43:28.000Bergoglio, when he was cardinal, was chosen on the fifth ballot, so also on day two, like we're seeing right now.
00:43:34.000So there's a lot of people saying, you know, is it possible that we did get a progressive continuation of Francis, or is it possible that we found someone who was more of a bridge between the two?
00:43:46.000A bridge between the progressives and the traditionalists, someone who's willing to actually balance out those two.
00:43:53.000Because while the modernists have made great progress in their eyes, it's really been the traditionalists that have seen a huge surge across Europe and North America with people flooding into the Latin Mass.
00:44:06.000And, of course, Pope Francis was not so keen to some elements of the Latin Mass.
00:44:12.000So this, of course, was in the vein of Pope.
00:44:15.000Benedict, who also really only passed away a couple years ago.
00:44:18.000So we've had quite a few popes in just the last five years.
00:45:00.000We've gotten way too comfortable across the spectrum.
00:45:03.000Until you see men who are willing to just do like what Peter did, shed his blood for the Lord.
00:45:10.000We're not going to see massive conversions, and we need that today in this world.
00:45:14.000Can you speak, John, about how the Church and the Pope needs to not just speak out against the cultural degeneracy and wokeism and all that stuff, but also about Islam?
00:45:26.000It seems as if there's been a little bit of silence, from my liking, from the Vatican, on the rise of Mohammedism throughout Europe.
00:48:04.000Ac reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum, Sancte Romane Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost, qui sibi nomen imposuit Leonem Decimum Quartum.
00:48:26.000mom So, the Pope is Cardinal Robert Francis Provost, who's taken the name of Leo XIV, Pope Leo XIV.
00:48:52.000Cardinal Provost is an American, and he spent most of his ministry in Latin America, in Peru, and also in Paraguay.
00:49:51.000This guy came in the running the last minute.
00:49:54.000Now, to be quite frank, roughly three days ago, Charlie, in a span of roughly 36 hours, every single major...
00:50:05.000What you and I would call liberal-leaning outlet ran PR stories in favor of this guy.
00:50:12.000That includes the New York Times, I think the Guardian had an article, and this guy, a National Catholic Reporter, which is like the anti-Catholic paper, okay?
00:50:21.000So all these papers all of a sudden did this huge ground support for Robert Prevost, okay?
00:50:38.000I have heard concerns about him, that he leans in the direction of Francis.
00:50:45.000But, you know, let's give this guy, of course, the benefit of the doubt.
00:50:49.000If he hasn't even come out of the logic yet, let's just see, you know, who he is and how he will govern the church in this next time ahead.
00:50:58.000But just that is an interesting biographical fact.
00:51:00.000That he shot to the head of everyone's thoughts and minds about three days ago.
00:51:09.000He seems to be, some people say he's a centrist, blending progressivism with traditional doctrine, born in Chicago, so I have that in common.
00:51:25.000I mean, he's lived all around, born in the best city in the world, Chicago, where I'm also from, Charlie.
00:51:30.000You know, there's an American element here, too.
00:51:33.000And let me tell you why that might be.
00:51:35.000Again, like we've said before, traditionally almost never does a conclave choose a pope from the world's reigning superpower just for prudential reasons.
00:51:43.000But there's a pragmatic reality going on here.
00:51:46.000The Vatican is almost bankrupt, right?
00:51:50.000People stopped giving to the Vatican in the last 12 years.
00:52:12.000Now, when you piss off Americans, considering that we fund, you know, I'm just taking a ballpark guess, at least 50% of the Vatican, okay?
00:52:23.000Well, that's not a good business model.
00:52:25.000So this week coincided with what's called America Week, when a lot of the bigger-name Catholic American philanthropists gather in Rome once a year, and they kind of discuss where they want to get their money, which is a great thing.
00:52:37.000Well, I know that they made their presence felt, saying, you know, we definitely want a pope who's going to bring things back.
00:52:46.000That might be a contributing factor that...
00:52:48.000The conclave knew that it had to get the good graces of the American lady back there to help with their financial situation because obviously they do some good work.
00:52:56.000The Vatican does there with the works at charity.
00:52:59.000So that might be an interesting angle about why there you go.
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00:56:07.000You have, because of the number of Cardinals who were named, we already know that a lot of them didn't know each other.
00:56:11.000It was the lady who basically took it upon themselves, specifically Edward Penton, fantastic reporter, and Diane Montano, who was actually standing right next to me, and put together that report, and they gave that to the Cardinals.
00:56:24.000They were literally standing outside those preparatory meetings and delivering those books to them.
00:56:29.000So those Cardinals, we're reading that, okay?
00:56:32.000That scorecard, which I briefly went through it, I mean, maybe, Charlie, you can kind of mention on air what that report grades Robert Prevost on certain issues, because that's very telling.
00:57:09.000Liz Lev was talking about the Pauline Chapel, and that's where the new pope, now Pope Leo XIV, when he will walk down this hallway in the chapel, and at the end of the chapel is an image of...
00:57:26.000Peter crucified upside down, but the artist turned his head so that when the new pope is walking down the hallway, Peter's eyes are falling up.
00:58:53.000And the mutual salute of the hymns, the Vatican hymn and the Italian National Anthem, as we do traditionally through Easter and Christmas this week.
00:59:06.000And after this, now, Pope Leo XIV, he will give a greeting and impart his first apostolic blessing, the Urbiet Urbi, to the city and to the whole.
00:59:16.000So that blessing extends to everyone who is watching, everyone who is listening, your family, wherever you are.
00:59:24.000It's a great moment to prepare ourselves for this first blessing.
00:59:32.000can just feel and see the emotion on his face.
00:59:44.000And the crowds there gathered in St. Peter's Square, still arriving, we're being told, from the avenues surrounding the Vatican there, the streets.
01:02:23.000And we still have the sound in our ears of the weak voice of Pope Francis who is blessing Rome here.
01:02:34.000We have that fresh in our minds, in our hearts.
01:02:37.000In our ears, hearing his voice, the Pope who was blessing Rome, giving his blessing to the world on that morning, on that day of Easter Sunday.
01:02:50.000Allow me to continue that same blessing.
01:03:36.000As the bridge between God and his love.
01:03:47.000May we all build bridges with dialogue and encounter so that we can all be one people, all in peace.
01:03:59.000Thank you, Pope Francis, for all you've done.
01:04:06.000We're hearing the first words here of Pope Leo XIV, just elected Pope.
01:04:13.000Voleo ringraziare anche tutti confratelli I'd like to also thank my brother Cardinals who chose me to be the successor of Pietro and to walk along with you, searching all together for peace and justice and working together, men and women faithful.
01:05:11.000We said, "With you I am a Christian, and for you I am a bishop." So, may we all walk together towards that to the place that God has prepared for us.
01:05:31.000May we walk together, accompany each other to the Church.
01:06:22.000A todos aquellos, y modo particular a mi querida diócesis de Chiclán.
01:06:29.000To all of you, but especially to the people of my diocese of Chiclayo in Peru.
01:06:44.000Where we had such faithful people accompanying the bishop and we had such faithful people helping the bishop.
01:06:59.000To all of you, the people of Rome and of Italy, we need to be a synodal church, a church that's a pilgrim, that shows charity always, and especially as charitable to those who are suffering.
01:07:29.000Today is the day of praying to the Madonna of Pompeii.
01:07:44.000Our Blessed Mother Mary always wants to be close to us.
01:07:49.000She always wants to receive through us, through her love.
01:07:56.000So, let us pray together for this new mission, for all of the Church, for peace in the world.
01:08:05.000That she will give us a special grace, our Mother.
01:08:11.000Hail Mary, Holy Grace, the Lord is with you.
01:08:15.000You are blessed among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
01:08:22.000Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the end of our death.
01:08:56.000And here we see him in his, after having given that opening and beautiful words.
01:09:03.000Continuing also the message of Pope Francis, where he even said in Spanish and Italian: "Futti, futti, futti!" And the Holy Father, Pope Leo, and to all people...
01:09:16.000A mezzo del radio, della televisione e delle altre tecnologie di comunicazione concede l 'indulgenza plenaria nella forma stabilita dalla Chiesa.
01:11:43.000We see the blessing there of the 14th to the world, to the city.
01:11:48.000This most solemn blessing to all of us and all of you listening and watching out there.
01:11:57.000What is interesting is that he's smiling and I found very touching the fact that he made reference to his former diocese in Peru and spoke to them in Spanish.
01:12:41.000And he asked us especially to be bridged back, as he is one of the acts that we're told as we have.
01:12:47.000That we should all put back on the images, both here in the Diocese of Rome, in Italy, and throughout the world.
01:12:53.000And that we should build that on fraternity and solidarity.
01:12:58.000And so many times Pope Francis told us the same.
01:13:04.000There have been false debates, I think, in leading up to this about unity and diversity and things, and it's made it clear that he's looking for us to be united, but also to be the bridge for others and to bring about peace in the world that's going to be true.
01:13:21.000We're seeing this stunning footage of this video that he drew in there going close to the balcony and seeing the first images like this up close of the new Pope.
01:13:36.000There's about 100,000 people we're getting in this square right now who are seeing Pope.
01:15:02.000Leo XIII was known, of course, for his emphasis on Catholic social teaching and enabling...
01:15:15.000So hopefully there we're going to see a...
01:15:20.000A better handling of this than we saw under Francis and a little bit more doctrine put in along with just the idea of embracing and accompanying people.
01:15:33.000But I'm confident that we've done now what I thought we were going to do, what I thought the Cardinals were going to do, was to make some kind of a course correction.
01:15:42.000I don't think this is going to be Francis II, but a lot remains to be seen because, Charlie, the office...
01:16:17.000They chose a man here who was in charge of the congregation for bishops.
01:16:21.000So over recent years, he has been responsible for the selection of bishops, which, of course, is a primary responsibility of the Pope to assign bishops to dioceses.
01:16:34.000So we're going to see very soon, not only in...
01:16:37.000I would look at that as much as the speeches he will give.
01:16:52.000He will be giving speeches now regularly.
01:16:54.000Hopefully he'll be of the style where we hear a lot from him, you know, popes that, you know, will preach every day and send out lots of messages.
01:17:29.000I mean, we want to keep this uplifting, and I'm trying to—I'm the Protestant here.
01:17:33.000I want a good, conservative, traditional-based, pro-life, you know, anti-transpo—what did we get here?
01:17:41.000I think just—I think honesty is the best recipe for true enthusiasm and hope.
01:17:49.000And I have to admit, I do have cause for concern, for great concern.
01:17:53.000Although what Father Frank was just saying, it's also true that, you know, a pope, someone can change once they've been handed the responsibility of 1.2 billion Catholics, right?
01:18:05.000But prior to this, I mean, the scorecard speaks for itself.
01:18:09.000You know, Poland in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s made Kara Waitiwa John Paul II in the same way.
01:18:18.000Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, carries his background.
01:18:43.000Dialogue has been hijacked by the left.
01:18:48.000Inside our church and outside of our church, as it's kind of a false idea that we can, yes, talk with the world, but never call them to repentance.
01:18:58.000You're going to laugh, but I'm looking behind, there's another rooftop, and on that rooftop right now is a priest by the name of Father James Martin.
01:19:07.000He's caused great scandal in the Catholic Church, and what does he run with?
01:19:10.000He was very close to Pope Francis, and he ran with dialogue.
01:19:14.000Let's welcome everyone in the church, but never call them in repentance.
01:19:43.000Maybe we offer a prayer in our own way for this man, for the mission that he is about to undertake.
01:19:51.000What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?
01:20:00.000They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.
01:20:04.000Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.
01:20:10.000We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.
01:20:13.000In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.
01:21:03.000He's from America, but he served in Peru.
01:21:05.000But he will be known as the American Pope.
01:21:08.000And also, is there something else going on here?
01:21:11.000Why they would go out of their way to choose an American Pope, Frank?
01:21:14.000That's the most surprising element of this to me.
01:21:17.000And I think that we can first of all say, one of my concerns, you know, our concerns with Pope Francis was he didn't seem to understand or appreciate what was going on here in America, our American politics certainly.
01:21:31.000And, you know, not to say that this is necessarily going to be a, you know, pro-Trump Pope, but I have the hope that, you know, at least...
01:21:43.000Coming from more of a familiarity with America, he will be able to work better with the Trump administration than Pope Francis did.
01:21:52.000Now, having said that, again, we'll have to just see the specifics as they unfold.
01:21:57.000The other thought is very interesting, like what you said about John Paul going back to Poland.
01:22:02.000Certainly, he's going to make trips to America.
01:22:04.000And I think this can really engage the attention of the American public to, you know, what is a pope?
01:22:16.000John, what is your thought of an American pope?
01:23:13.000But, you know, that remains to be seen.
01:23:15.000I think at the end of the day, what's going to create conversions, you know, it's kind of like how Trump won the White House.
01:23:24.000It wasn't Trump that won the White House.
01:23:26.000He did, of course, on his personality.
01:23:28.000But it was us who saw our task, our own mission.
01:23:32.000In this case, it's a mission of holiness, of getting to heaven and becoming Christ-like, which is going to create the witness and create more conversion.
01:23:39.000So, Pope or not, American or not, Gringo or not, Holy Pope or Sinner Pope, it's up to us.
01:23:46.000That's how we're going to make the change.
01:23:48.000Blake, what can we expect out of an American Pope, and then you want to go more into the history?
01:23:52.000Yeah, well, so, an American Pope, what we can expect, and this is not even necessarily the fault of the new Pope, but 100%, you will see...
01:24:00.000It's obviously a big attempt by media in the U.S., media worldwide, to play up any conflict between the American pope and the American president.
01:24:10.000Even if he doesn't play into that directly, they will do it.
01:24:16.000We have to be ready to not fall into this trap where, like, oh, this, like, atheist guy at the New York Times is saying the pope said this, so I have to agree with what the...
01:24:26.000Atheist guy at the New York Times says I'm supposed to think about what the Pope says about the president.
01:25:20.000But what Leo XIII was interesting about, he was kind of the first pope to really engage with what we would call modern-day economic and social issues.
01:25:31.000So he wrote encyclicals where he would say, basically...
01:25:48.000He was more kind of cutting a middle path between sort of, you know, left-wing economics and, like, capitalism.
01:25:57.000Trying to carve out his own sort of Catholic position on it.
01:26:00.000Another thing he promoted, which I think we would have some sympathy with, is he called it subsidiarity, which is that decisions generally should be made at a local, at a smaller level, rather than imposed by very high-up authorities as a principle of government.
01:26:18.000And as American conservatives, we're obviously sympathetic to that in an innate sort of way.
01:26:26.000That's just looking at what he might be drawing inspiration from.
01:26:29.000I think initially we could look at, well, he picked this guy's name.
01:26:33.000So I think you'll see a lot of people talking about that in the days to come.
01:26:37.000Final thoughts, Frank, and then we'll throw it to John.
01:27:13.000We're going to have to unpack that in the coming weeks and months and see how that's a key to his thinking.
01:27:18.000But it could point to a good effort to heal the divisions that have happened in the church, certainly the divisions among the wider body of Christ.
01:27:27.000And of course, what always has to be front and center, pointing to the one Lord and head of the church who is Jesus Christ.
01:27:56.000We ask the Heavenly Father right now to bless Christians around this world in this moment for the universal church.
01:28:03.000We ask Christians to renew their love for the Lord and may he bless us right now.
01:28:09.000Bless Robert Prevost and his role as Pope of Catholics around the world.
01:28:14.000And we ask that Our Lady be close to him and ultimately keep us centered on what truly matters, reaching heaven and bringing people there with us.
01:28:25.000In the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord, amen.