Well, this is a different rabbithole than I would have expected to go down, but why not? I have no idea of the Catholic experience outside the US and if that im

Well, this is a different rabbithole than I would have expected to go down, but why not? I have no idea of the Catholic experience outside the US and if that image means anything to them. I can get into my personal feelings if it matters; I don't think they matter much to anyone except me. The quick summary is that I dug the grave of a great-great Aunt of mine by hand at a small cemetery attached to the Catholic church in the tiny, forgettable town she was born in. One quirk of this rural, very white (I assume the entire population is a fairly close cousin of one type or another to me), Catholic town is that the priest is an African immigrant. My aunt was quite racist and so I thought it was a sort of ironic that the last group of people who saw her out of this world were twenty-five percent black. So an AI-generated image of a black pope made me stop and think for a minute about what Catholic identity means; a concept that as someone who was raised in that tradition but is unable to myself believe in the divine has always been problematic. Basically, it was good art, though I don't think that was the intent of the corporation that created it.