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MAGA fans preparing to storm St. Peter’s Basilica should Trump lose conclave (newsthump.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Fun fact if he was baptized as a catholic he is eligible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yes, there is precedent. Some random Catholic who wasn't even a priest got selected after a conclave had been stuck in political deadlock for literal years. He couldn't actually take the job till he was ordained, which he did. He immediately instituted a bunch of rules including locking them away together with no luxuries until a decision was made to make sure that problem didn't happen again. (It happened again multiple times anyway.)