If there is a vestige of serving humanity left in the Vatican sans Francis - and I have zero fucking hope there is - they will respond to this exactly the way Canada did.
Y'know what, fuck it, Canada, as a people, should choose the next pope. They proved themselves fucking worthy of the monumental task at hand.
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