Andrea Sarubbi, your plate of crow is ready!

Screenshot:  National Catholic Reporter, 5/6/2025

And so when the question of a pope from the United States is raised, there is much to consider. While there are prominent men in the U.S. delegation participating in the upcoming conclave — Cardinals Joseph Tobin, Robert Prevost, Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy and Timothy Dolan — seeing an American dressed in white emerging from the Sistine Chapel would be against all odds. 

Of the 133 cardinal electors, 10 are from the United States. 

First, is there really a U.S. delegation, a team that would wear the same jersey? Do these players feel like teammates? In few other parts of the world is the word "schism" evoked so often as in the United States: The U.S. church is very divided on numerous issues — social ones, primarily, but also liturgical — and has never failed to show it publicly. The result is an image of two major currents. Other than the generally common approach on migrants and refugees, the portrait is quite similar to that of the current U.S. civil society, divided between Donald Trump supporters and liberals, able to unite only on Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July.