Here Is the First Snoopy Meme That A Pope Ever Retweeted
Peanuts be with you — and with your spirit.
Last week, the Sacred College of Cardinals convened in Vatican City for a conclave to determine who among them would become the next head of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis on April 25th. After just two days of deliberation, the Cardinals selected Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, to lead the Church into its next era. A 69-year-old American-Peruvian from Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo XIV now has Catholic traditionalists and conservative political commentators clutching their pearls as they wonder what modern hell the first American Pope will wreak on the Church’s international image, but, worry not, this Pope is as old-fashioned as they come — just look at the Boomer Humor in his Twitter feed!
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Like so many Chicagoans before him, the Pope is a big comedy fan, and he’s not afraid to share his sense of humor on his surprisingly active social media accounts. As journalists, political strategists and curious internet sleuths snoop through the robust digital footprint of Pope Leo XIV, fans of the classic cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and collectors of vintage old people memes alike have rejoiced in the discovery that, in 2020, the power of Christ compelled the Holy Father to retweet this Spanish language, abuelo-Facebook-tier Peanuts edit:
For the non-Spanish-speaking transubstantiators among us, in the Snoopy meme that Pope Leo XIV found so tickling that he just had to share it with his pre-Papacy followers, Charlie Brown is depicted as telling his dear dog, “But Snoopy, there are many people who are smart!!”
Spanish Snoopy then replies, “Of course, but most of them are asymptomatic!!”
Based on the reaction to @NatPurser’s hilarious find in the Pope’s Twitter history, this meme, though objectively corny, is scoring Pope Leo XIV massive popularity points among the sizable population of terminally online Charlie Brown stans. But while Catholic comedy-lovers may find the new Holy Father’s delightfully dad-like sense of humor endearing, there’s a very real chance that the rabid conservative critics of Pope Leo XIV will use his retweet of this “Maybe if we tell people the brain is an app, they’ll start using it!”-style Boomer joke as more ammo in their online smear campaign against him.
After far-right political figures found old posts from the new Pope in which he criticized the inhumane policies of America's Republican elite, the religious reactionaries branded Leo XIV to be a “WOKE MARXIST POPE,” and his tweets are now under intense scrutiny from the American Right. Presumably, Laura Loomer and the like will object to the first American Pope memeing in Spanish while there is a supposed immigrant “invasion” going on.
Still, the devout among us should try to find empathy for the triggered, anti-woke, anti-Pope snowflakes, as we are all sinners just like them. Plus, the emotional whiplash Loomer must have experienced when she discovered that the new American Pope dislikes J.D. Vance just as much as the old Argentinian one probably left her feeling like Charlie Brown when Lucy pulled back that football.
