The First Gay Pope?

Pope Leo with his BFF and personal secretary, Father Edgard Rimaycuna.

The current pope, Leo XIV, is a groundbreaker on several fronts: Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope born in the U.S., the first to hold American and Peruvian citizenship, and the first to have a live-in gay lover. At least if you ask me. 

The 69-year-old's recent decision to "break from tradition" and, rather than live alone in the customary papal lodgings, share an apartment with four roommates including his "longtime closest companion" certainly points in that direction.

Hey, I'm Jewish -- these days I've got other things to worry about. Gay, schmay -- who cares. But it seems nutty for the Catholics to have a gay pope as their leader. Considering their decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child abuse by priests, you'd think they would aim for a lower profile, sexuality-wise.

Oh well. I guess even popes get lonely.