WHY DO CATHOLICS PRAY TO MARY INSTEAD OF STRAIGHT TO GOD JESUS.

WHY DO CATHOLICS PRAY TO MARY INSTEAD OF STRAIGHT TO GOD JESUS.

A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.

ISAIAH 23:15-17
15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.

REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:(VATICAN)
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.(THATS PEDOPHELIA-FORNICATION IS SINGLES HAVING SEX OUT SIDE OF MARRIAGE)(AND SINCE PREISTS CAN NOT MARRY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THIS FALSE CHURCH GOES AGAINST THE BIBLE.THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BECOMES A HOMOSEXUAL HAVEN OF PEDOPHILIAS FACTORY).  
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:(THE VATICAN GOES AGAINST A PRIEST MARRING A WOMAN-LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS-AND WHATS AN ABOMINATION AGAINST GOD-HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDOPHILIA JUST LIKE THIS SCRIPTURE SAYS-FORNICATION IS THE SINGLE HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAVING UNMARRIED FORNICATION OR SEX WITH SINGLES-IN THIS CASE ITS SEX WITH CHILDREN OR PEDOPHILIA)
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(GOD HIMSELF GIVES THE OK TO NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.(VATICAN)

HOW THE FALSE POPE IS ELECTED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3Qnr_30Z4
POPE FRANCIS SISTER (PEDOPHILIA WAY WORSE THEN THOUGHT) (CARDINAL MATEO TERESCO-THE NEXT COVERUP POPE OF PEDOPHILIA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usFshfmBPmY
FALSE POPE LEO 14TH 2012 INTERVIEW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVkJ5TQi1s
POPE 14TH WILL BE WORSE THAN FRANCIS.
https://banned.video/watch?id=681cf97a22a2c8ae0e09b5d0

KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS FALSE POPE LEO 14TH

https://israndjer.blogspot.com/2025/05/defector-pope-watch-final-pope-in.html

THIS POPE WAY MORE LIBERAL THAN FRANCIS

https://israndjer.blogspot.com/2025/05/pope-leo-14th-will-be-woke-way-worse.html 

LIKE FRANCIS LEO 14TH WORSHIPPS MARY.WHEN SHE WAS AND IS JUST ANOTHER MOTHER WHO HAD 4 OR 5 OTHER CHILDREN BESIDES JESUS. THESE CATHOLICS THINK THEY GOTTA PRAY TO MARY. TO GET TO JESUS. INSTEAD OF GOING DIRECTLY TO GOD JESUS THE SON.THEW THE FATHER. THIS IS HOW DELUDED THE CATHOLICS ARE.THEY CAN RUB THEM BEADS AND PRAY TO MARY TILL THEIR BLUE AND PURPLE IN THE FACE. AND THEY WON'T GET ANY PRAYERS ANSWERED. MARY WAS JUST A MOTHER. SO GOOD LUCK CATHOLICS. THE ONLY WAY YOU GET PRAYERS ANSWERED IS WHEN YOU PRAY TO THE FATHER IN JESUS' (GOD) NAME. ITS NOT MARY. ITS JESUS WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS WHO WAS AND IS OUR JEWISH SAVIOR, NOT MARY SHES ONLY A JEWISH MOTHER. MARY IS JEWISH SO WHY DO THE CATHOLICS THINK THEIR THE ISRAELIS OF TODAY. ONCE AGAIN ITS CALLED DELUDED REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY HOGWASH. THE PROMISES OF THE BIBLE TO ISRAEL IN THE BIBLE. ARE FOR THE ISRAELIS AND JEWS IN ISRAEL. SURE NOT A CULT THAT WORSHIPS MARY AS GOD. AND USES TRADITIONS TO DELUDE ALL THE CATHOLICS INTO BELIEVEING LIES LIKE YOU PRAY TO THE MOTHER INSTEAD OG GOD HIMSELF. AND ALSO THE FALSE TEACHING OF PURGATORY. THE SECOND YOU DIE YOU GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL. NOT PRAY FOR THE DEAD PERSON TO GET OUTTA HELL IF HE WENT THEIR. ONCE AGAIN THE CATHOLIC CULT RELIES ON WORKS TO GET TO HEAVEN. MY BIBLE SAYS ONCE AGAIN. I'M NOT SAVED BY PRAYING TO MARY FALSELY. PRAYING AND PAYING FOR THE DEAD. OR BY WORKS. MY GOD AND ONLY GOD JESUS SAYS ITS A FREE GIFT OF GOD. AND BECAUSE THE CATHOLIC CULT GOES AGAINST THE BIBLE AND RELIES ON TRADITION OF CELIBACY. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS FILLED WITH HOMOSEXUAL-PEDOPHILE PREISTS HAVING FORNICATION OR SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE AMOUNG SINGLES. OR PREISTS ABUSING THE AVERAGE CATHOLIC CHURCH CHILD BY FORCING THEMSELVES ON THE CHILD.OR DECIEVING THE CHILD WITH LIES TO FULFILL HIS LUST OR REPRIBATE MIND FANTASIES.

Why pray to Mary and the Saints when I can go straight to Jesus?    

When a person is baptized, they become part of the mystical body of Christ. A Christian is connected spiritually to other Christians through their baptism. Since Christianity is a communal faith, we are supposed to help each other spiritually and physically. The Bible tells Christians to pray for one another in James 5:16, “Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.” Praying for one another is powerful, and the prayers of a righteous person are very powerful. What human, other than the God-Man Jesus, is more righteous than Mary? She is full of grace (Luke 1:28) and blessed among women (Luke 1:42). Mary is our mother. Jesus extended her motherhood to all humanity when He was on the Cross (John 19:26-27). What good mother isn’t concerned with her children? Mary loves her children and prays for them.Mary, along with the other Saints, have died and gone to Heaven, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t concerned with the Church on Earth. The Church consists of the Christians on Earth (Church militant), Christians in purgatory (Church suffering), and the Christians in Heaven (Church Triumphant). Christians on Earth may be physically separated from Christians in Heaven, but we are all connected supernaturally in the Mystical Body of Christ. Christ has conquered death; what is more powerful? Death or the blood of Christ? To say that death has cut off the Christians in Heaven from the Christians on Earth assumes that death is more powerful than the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross.The book of Revelation supports that humans and angels in Heaven are conscious of and pray for Christians on Earth. Revelation 8:3-4 reads, “And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God.” The above text clearly states that Angels in Heaven are offering up the prayers of the Saints. Who are they praying for? This scene from the book of Revelation takes place in Heaven; the angels and saints aren’t praying for the people in Heaven, they don’t need prayers, they have been saved and are with God in Heaven. They aren’t praying for people in hell because they are eternally damned; their prayers are useless. They must be praying for the Church on Earth and Purgatory. This would imply that angels and saints in Heaven hear the prayers of the Church on Earth and intercede on their behalf. The Catholic Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, has always known and taught this from its start in 33 AD by Jesus Christ.Many times, non-Catholic Christians accuse Catholics of praying to the Saints and not going to Jesus. Catholics have always gone to Jesus. Every day at Mass, millions of Catholics recite the Lord’s Prayer. If one listens closely during Mass, everything is asked: “Through Christ our Lord.” Practicing Catholics have the most intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, greater than any Protestant Christian group. By Christ’s command, we actually consume his Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity at every Mass. Christ literally becomes part of us and strengthens us on our road to holiness and salvation. Protestants have communion services every so often, but the bread and wine (or grape juice) are just a symbol of Christ’s Body and Blood. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches are the only Churches that experience the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. What greater personal relationship can one have with Jesus than partaking in his Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity? Just like Catholics who go directly to Jesus but also ask Mary and the Saints to pray for us, Protestants themselves ask for the prayers of their pastors, ministers, elders, family, and friends. There is nothing wrong with this; James 5:16 says, “The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects,” and we are told to “pray for one another.” With this in mind, how greater are the prayers of Mary and Saints, particularly Mary, who is most blessed among women? All Christians should have an intimate relationship with Jesus but also be united with the other members of the Body of Christ in prayer. As said earlier, death temporally separates Christians physically, but death cannot separate those who have been baptized in Christ’s life, death, and resurrection and live in Christ Jesus.

Pope Leo XIV’s Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady of Fátima-‘The Pope is devoted to the Virgin Mary.’Walter Sánchez Silva/ACI Prensa/CNA World-May 13, 2025

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary before the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fátima, whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on May 13.On Jan. 7, 2019, after having requested a year earlier that the Marian image be brought to Chiclayo from the Fátima shrine in Portugal, then-Bishop Robert Prevost offered a special Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral that was attended by a large number of faithful.“My memory of the January 2019 consecration is that the bishop [Prevost] agreed to it very easily, out of love for the Virgin. I remember that we priests were on a retreat and we asked him for permission so that we too could receive the image and consecrate ourselves, and he agreed,” said Father Jorge Millán Cotrina, pastor of Holy Family Parish in Chiclayo, in a statement to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner.“It was very moving because here in Chiclayo, the people are very Marian. The city of Chiclayo’s original name is Our Lady of the Valleys of Chiclayo, which the Franciscans gave it in the 16th century,” he continued.“The Pope is devoted to the Virgin Mary, but not under any specific title of hers, although it may be the Mother of Good Counsel, whom he recently went to venerate in Italy.” However, he also celebrated Masses for “Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel,” due to the great Marian devotion of the people of Chiclayo.Regarding the election of Cardinal Prevost as the successor of St. Peter, Father Millán said that when he saw the announcement, he experienced “a tremendous, indescribable emotion” and a cause of “great joy, great peace, and a soul open to hope, because there are always little things that are confusing, and knowing that he will be there gives us a certain hope that things will be better.”“Not because of him, but because of his personality, because of his docility to the things of God, to the Holy Spirit,” he clarified.The priest also commented that when he heard Pope Leo XIV mention his “beloved diocese of Chiclayo” from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, “many of us were brought to tears.”Below is the prayer of consecration that Pope Leo XIV recited before the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fátima when he was bishop of Chiclayo:“I, Robert Francis Prevost Martínez, make this day an act of consecration, repentance, [asking] forgiveness, and reparation to God for all the transgressions that have occurred in Peru.“I do this before God and for those who have sought to eliminate the Catholic faith in times past and present. I ask for forgiveness, and through this act of [seeking] forgiveness, we want this consecration to be a reason to encourage us to seek in Peru the conversion and unity we so very much need, and that only comes from God.“Through this act of repentance, [seeking] forgiveness, and reparation to God, I renew the consecration of Peru, united with the dioceses, parishes, priests, deacons, seminarians, men and women religious, and laypeople to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.“I wish, in this way, to consecrate and surrender to God all that we are and all that we have, and receive in turn his everlasting love and protection for every person and every family in Peru.“And let us say together, Hail Mary …”This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

Is Pope Leo XIV Leaving Us Clues About Where He’s Headed? COMMENTARY: In his first days as Pope, Leo XIV has signaled continuity over rupture, rooted his vision in patristic tradition, and issued a bold call to young people: ‘Do not be afraid.’Pope Leo XIV is seen on giant screens as he delivers his first Regina Caeli address Sunday from the main central loggia of St Peter's basilica in the Vatican.Father Raymond J. de Souza Commentaries-May 13, 2025

Pope Leo XIV’s first few days have been met with widespread enthusiasm and excitement, not least because the Holy Father himself is confident, at ease, and seems to enjoy being pope. He told the cardinals they had asked him “to carry that cross and to be blessed with that mission.” At least for now, the blessing is more apparent than the cross. After the initial impressions of the Holy Father’s first days — and the global reaction — there are now second impressions that suggest where Pope Leo might be headed.Citation Signals-In Rome, the citations matter. Pope Leo XIV has lavished praise on his immediate predecessor, as all popes are expected to do. Pope St. John Paul did so in October 1978, even though Blessed John Paul I had been pope for only 33 days. Yet Leo XIV has also carefully cited Pope Benedict XVI, as well as John Paul II and St. Paul VI. In taking the name Leo — in honor of Pope Leo XIII, he said — he reaches even farther back into Catholic history. For those who might set one pontificate against another, Pope Leo is encouraging the opposite, to see continuity across them. And he seems intent on reminding Catholics that the Church did not begin with Vatican II in the 1960s, even as he remains committed to its vision.The Augustinian order, to which Pope Leo belongs, has an academic specialty in the Church Fathers (“patristics”), fitting for “son[s] of St. Augustine,” as the Holy Father called himself at his first appearance on the balcony. The Augustinian university in Rome specializes in patristics.Pope Leo XIV cited St. Augustine in his address and blessing urbi et orbi (“to the city and the world”), St. Ignatius of Antioch in his homily at his Mass with the cardinals, and St. Gregory the Great in his first Regina Caeli address. It would not be a surprise if he instructed his staff to prepare patristic references for his addresses, to which he would add his own. Patristic study has been neglected in recent decades, partly because the genuine renewal in biblical studies has absorbed a great deal of scholarly energy and attention, and those resources are not infinite. Patristics is meant, though, to be a complement to the study of Scripture. Pope Leo will be reminding the Church of that.Be Not Afraid! Papal remarks are carefully prepared, so departures from the text and spontaneous remarks are noteworthy — reflecting what might have priority in the papal mind. On his first Sunday as pope, Leo offered an extemporaneous homily at the Mass he celebrated at the tomb of St. Peter. Speaking of the mission of the Church and vocations, he said, “Take courage! Without fear! Many times in the Gospel Jesus says: ‘Do not be afraid.’”A short while later, while delivering his first Regina Caeli address from the balcony of St. Peter’s, he departed from his prepared text — which was focused on priestly and religious vocations — to add: “And to young people, I say: Do not be afraid! Accept the invitation of the Church and of Christ the Lord!”That was a direct echo of John Paul’s inaugural “Be not afraid!” in 1978. It became the signature theme of the entire pontificate; Leo would have intended that homage by quoting him spontaneously. Certainly, the immense throng of some 100,000 immediately recognized it, giving a roar of approval. At his own inaugural homily on April 24, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI concluded by quoting, and then reinterpreting, the “Be not afraid!” It became the most quoted passage of Benedict’s immensely rich pontificate:“And so, today, with great strength and great conviction, based on long personal experience of life, I say to you, dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ — and you will find true life. Amen.”Benedict took John Paul’s “Be not afraid” and applied it to the life of each disciple, especially young people, not only the great political and economic systems of which John Paul spoke. Pope Leo XIV has now applied it more specifically to the vocational dimension of youth.To Visit the Blessed Mother“Tomorrow, I wish to go and pray to Our Lady, that she may watch over all of Rome,” said Pope Francis on his first appearance as pope on the balcony. The next day he would go to visit the icon of Mary, Salus Populi Romani, at St. Mary Major. He would return more than 100 times during his pontificate, finally choosing to be buried adjacent to the image. It is unlikely any pope will match that record, but Leo might have contributed to fixing it as a tradition. John Paul, a few weeks after his election, made a visit to the Marian shrine of Mentorella. Pope Leo XIV went on Saturday to the shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel about an hour outside of Rome, a shrine entrusted to the Augustinian Fathers, which the Holy Father has been visiting for decades. With John Paul and Leo on either side of the Marian pilgrim Francis, a short pilgrimage to a Marian shrine may well become a tradition for newly elected popes.The American Taboo-Americans are fittingly joyful and proud that a son of Chicago has become pope. But the very widespread idea that it was particularly unimaginable needs to be corrected. A poor knowledge of Church history serves no one. The New York Times headline read, “Pope Leo XIV overcame an old taboo — being American.” There were dozens of such headlines, in both the secular and Catholic media.There was no taboo, certainly not an old one. The Mayflower sailed in 1620, so the possibility of a U.S. pope — as opposed to a Polish or German one — is relatively recent. While canon law does not require the conclave to choose a cardinal from within their number, it has been the practice since 1389. It would be nearly 500 years before the first U.S. cardinal, John McCloskey of New York, was created 150 years ago in 1875.Eligible for the conclave of 1878, he did not participate because he could not reach Rome in time. The second U.S. cardinal was James Gibbons of Baltimore. Cardinal Gibbons happened to be in Rome when Pope Leo XIII died in 1903, so he became the first American to participate in a conclave — which elected St. Pius X. Any “American taboo” in 1903 would have been a taboo on one man! When Pius X died in 1914, Cardinal Gibbons and Cardinal William O’Connell did not reach Rome in time to participate in the conclave. Likewise, the U.S. cardinals did not arrive in time for the 1922 conclave. No Americans, no taboo on their election. The conclave of 1939 was the first to include multiple Americans — three to be exact. It elected Pope Pius XII. Still, given that it had been 400 years since any non-Italian had been elected pope, it could be said of any other country that there was a “taboo.” Only since the election of John Paul II in 1978 — after the Italian elected before him died suddenly — has it been a practical option to choose another nationality.There have been three conclaves since — 2005, 2013 and 2025. The first elected Pope Benedict XVI, of which there was no equal in the conclave of any nationality. In 2013, there was serious attention given to Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston — it was not unimaginable that he could have been elected instead of Pope Francis. In 2025, a cardinal from the United States was in fact elected. So much for the “taboo.”There is not a taboo now — but there never has been, much less an old one.