Could someone be the Pope and the President of the United States at the same time. Leaving aside the unlikeliness of the situation, would the position of Pope technically be considered nobility, making the person ineligable?
What? No offense, but this is laughable.
Cardinals must dedicate their entire lives to the priesthood which means A LOT of work towards things like charity, teaching, running a church, etc.
To be a presidential hopeful you must dedicate your life to the inner-workings of the American political system
in short, to achieve one takes a life time. To achieve both would take 2 lifetimes.
looking at the title - i would say yes, just have a president with the last name "Pope"
Wouldn't it fall foul of Separation of Church and State though?
It would be perfectly possible for the Italian President... but nobody in the Italian Senate would have the guts to actually declare a papal candidate as President of Italy.
France and Spain both technically have formal traditional ties to Papacy, if an ASB makes everybody in the Western World to go back to center politics around who is the Pope, I'd bet they'd try to do something for gain it. Okay, technically Spain has a king, but whatever.
I have serious doubts on the USA president due to the "Not-European Catholic/-Catholic derived country" stigma (Pope Francis' election was all but obvious, as everybody expected Bagnasco to win, and had already sent congratulations letter to Bagnasco, before the election results were even revealed." You could make it work, by buying the Curia, but I don't see the benefit of it.