I'm a lapsed cradle Catholic, so I historically have not been super tapped into what goes on with the church. But I love paegantry, so when the conclave (aka, the gathering when the cardinals meet to elect a new pope) came around last year, I was locked in. When that puff of white smoke came out of the Vatican, I had zero idea how historic their decision would be. THEY CHOSE AN AMERICAN POPE, Y'ALL! He spoke about the decision , saying, "Pope Leo XIII, in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the social question in the context of the first great Industrial Revolution. And today, the church offers to everyone the treasury of social teaching in response to another Industrial Revolution. And to the developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor." Sorry, I just need to circle back to something. This dude is AMERICAN! THE POPE is from the Midwest! Chicago! He's been to at least one baseball game !…