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Pope Leo will vote from the Vatican, by mail, in Illinois' midterm election
(chicago.suntimes.com)
He better get that thing post-marked a.s.a.p.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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I wonder if he is the first Head of State of a foreign country who is also a US Citizen and actively participates in voting here.
(I know there have been other foreign politicians, like Boris Johnson, who technically had US citizenship due to being born here, but they never exercised it and had to formally renounce it before entering leadership, but this is different).
It's even weirder since there was a lot of angst when Kennedy was running for office, as a Catholic, that he would be forced to take orders from the Vatican. Now, the Pope has a Member of Congress representing him. It would be ironic if that person is an athiest....
I wonder if he is the first Head of State of a foreign country who is also a US Citizen and actively participates in voting here.
Does Putin count?
Wait, Boris Johnson was born in the US?
Huh. TIL.
Slightly related note: Benjamin Netanyahu went to high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera though I don't know whether he voted in the US when he was already president of Ireland
Not sure the last part is that ironic, since he most likely believes in the separation of church and state.
he most likely believes in the separation of church and state
He's literally the head of state because he's head of the church. He's the personified antithesis of the separation you're claiming he's in favor of 😄
The Catholic church has a lot of very real very destructive problems happening, especially its entire pedophile cover ups problem. Be angry at the legitimately harmful stuff, not this "he's a 100% irredeemable evil hypocrite because he's a religious figure and head of state is possibly suggesting other nation not follow their example" nonsense.
Be angry at the pedo shit, not this pure ideology testing nonsense. I dont particularly give a shit if he's the head of state and head of the religion of a state that is over a milennium of treaties and compromises of European monarchs to create a sense of political-religious neutrality between their nations that doesn't particularly matter all that much in 2026. He seems to broadly support the extremely recent (in comparison to the Catholic Church) understanding of the separation of church and state.
Touche. Maybe more of a hypocrite then.
Interesting that they still have him registered as Robert Francis Prevost. I would have thought a papal name would be an actual name change.
I can imagine that being a bureaucratic nightmare.
"It says here your name is Leo, but there's no surname...?"
he could be Leo Prevost for those purposes