[STEAM] Newly anointed Pope Leo XIV is our first confirmed gamer pontiff

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Yesterday's naming of Chicago native Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV—the first American-born leader of the Catholic church—has already led to

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about his potential interactions with various bits of American pop culture. And that cultural exposure apparently extends to some casual video games, making Leo XIV is our first confirmed gamer pope.

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Thursday, papal sibling John Prevost confirmed that the soon-to-be-pope played a couple of games just before flying to the papal conclave earlier this week. "First we do Wordle, because this is a regular thing," Prevost said. "Then we do Words with Friends. It's something to keep his mind off life in the real world..."

OK, so the pope's love of casual word games doesn't exactly put him in the same category of people who are

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. But it's still striking to realize that the 69-year-old pontiff is among the reported

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 and the

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who have played Wordle specifically.

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