Does everybody in the world have an opinion on our new pope?
I’m amazed at the interest in my church. Does a new head of any other denomination get such scrutiny from the public? I can’t imagine why anyone who isn’t Catholic is interested in what we do..........
He has strong influence over a huge voting bloc and many special-interest groups.
The non-catholic interest in the new Pope has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with politics.
We should be interested in Roman Catholicism because over a billion people in this world are baptized Catholic.
The sheer size of that population makes what happens in the Vatican hard to ignore.