There’s an American pope, and he’s just like us. At least, we really, really want him to be

By TED ANTHONY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — By the middle of last week, it became clear that something odd was happening. It was about the time that the fake video started circulating about the woman purporting to recount the “situationship” she’d had with Robert Prevost, the new American pope, decades ago when he was just another guy from Chicago.
We’d already seen Topps, the baseball-card company, issue a new card of Pope Leo XIV that was all over eBay. We&