Social media has become a force to be reckoned with in the gathering of cardinals preparing to elect the next pope, with some already dubbing it the ‘TikTok conclave.”
With memes from the papal funeral, NFL draft-style videos of the cardinals rumored to be leading candidates and AI-generated reels of Pope Francis meeting Jesus and Michael Jackson in heaven, social media is cluttered with pope- and Vatican-related content.
“It seems like the papal conclave is going viral,” said Katie Prejean McGrady, host of SiriusXM’s “The Catholic Channel.”
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