India, May 10 -- The smoke has cleared, the bells have rung, and the papal balcony has once again served as the world's most dramatic stage. On Thursday evening, Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago was officially named the 267th pope, stepping out to greet the crowd as Pope Leo XIV. With a calm "Peace be with you all," he addressed thousands gathered at St. Peter's Square - and about a million meme-makers online.

Within minutes of the announcement, social feeds lit up like a Christmas Eve mass. Meme accounts had a field day, none more so than @ClubConcrave - known among its followers as Pope Crave. The account, run by Susan Bin (who, in a plot twist worthy of a Netflix docuseries, isn't Catholic at all), became ground zero for papal parod...