Timothy Cardinal Dolan reacts to the picture of Trump as a Pope to the AI-generated picture. “It wasn't good”

Rome – the The selection of the new Pope begins this weekBut the focus on Sunday was on President Trump and one AI-generated picture that he posted on social media as a Pope.

Timothy Cardinal DolanThe Archbishop of New York is in Rome to the conclave – the closely guarded assembly of cardinal voters to choose the new Pope – and said that Mr. Trump “not well” divided.

“I hope he had nothing to do with it,” he told CBS News New York.

The Catholic conference of the state of New York wrote on social media: “This picture has nothing clever or funny, Mr. President. We have just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals are currently in a solemn result to choose a new successor to St. Peter.

Last week, Mr. Trump joked reporters in front of the White House that he wanted to be a Pope.

“That would be my choice No. 1,” he said on Tuesday.

The president added that he actually had no preference, but referred to Dolan and said: “I have to say we have a cardinal who happens to be in a place called New York that is very good, so we will see what happens.”

Gather cardinals

The discussion about the picture comes when cardinals from all over the world climbed into the Vatican city Start with the process of choosing a new Pope on Wednesday.

But the topic seemed far away from the heads of the believers, who welcomed Cardinal Dolan like license fees on Sunday in the Roman church that he was led by Pope Benedict. The simple church with a room was founded by Mexican refugees and is located outside the Vatican city in our dear wife of Guadalupe.

Kathleen AWN, who lived in New York City, said she had moved to this special district in Italy because of the community church of Bay Ridge, Bay Ridge, listed by Dolan.

“I respect him a lot,” she said.

During the sermon on Sunday, Dolan asked the community in Italian to pray for him and for all cardinals to start the conclave.

In just a few days, he will move in seclusion to choose the next Pope. He said every cardinal speaks eight to ten minutes to imagine, and everyone has to speak honestly to win the other.

“They only talk beautifully about their own dioceses so that we can get to know the church universally and talk about the challenges. They talk about Papa Francesco's enormous blessings,” said Dolan.

Dolan laughs at the view that he will be a pope

This is not his first time among the cardinal voters who choose a new Pope, and he said he felt more comfortable and seasoned.

When asked what kind of Pope he hopes, Dolan replied, someone like Jesus.

“When Pope Francis spoke to us Cardinals for the first time, he spoke so beautiful and humble and simple,” he recalled. “I was sitting next to the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schonborn, and he had tears in his eyes. He said: 'He speaks like Jesus.' I said, 'I think that's the job description.' “

CBS News New York also asked about his chances of being selected as a Pope, and jokingly replied: “Didn't I warn her what would happen after legalizing marijuana?”

A man described Dolan as “cardinal of joy” and added that the church needs more joy.