We, or at least the Apostolic Christian world, is in the Novemdiales, that being a nine day period of mourning which commenced yesterday, with the funeral Mass for Pope Francis.
The whole world is also in the period of rampaging inaccurate punditry about who will be the next Pope.
Nobody knows who is going to be the next Pope. It could be one of the people mentioned, or might be somebody nobody has ever heard of. Even if it is somebody nobody has every heard of, the Press will pretend like they've heard of him after the fact.
It's also a series of days in which anti Catholics will increasingly attack the Catholic Church, with those attacks being particularly strong in the United States, and particularly coming from both secular atheists and a certain branch of Evangelical Protestants, although certainly not all of them by any means. I've already seen one such post loudly complaining that the whole world takes note of a passing Pope while the death of a local pastor is ignored.
Well, there's a reason for that.
The speculation will continue until the shoes of the fisherman are filled, and his seat taken. During the interregnum the speculation will be rampant, and it will be for a time thereafter as well.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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