Here are some of the possible name for the new pope, going back to Celestine who resigned in 1294. What name do you want the new pope to take? This poll will stay open until Habemus papam.
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What Name Do You Want the New Pope To Take?
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48 responses to “What Name Do You Want the New Pope To Take?”
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It would be fun hearing people try to say “Sixtus the sixth” three times fast.
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@Fritz Bauerschmidt – comment #1:
If you’re going to go down that route, try “Callistus Sixtus”.
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Are the two different Gregorys for those of us who consider John XXII and all his successors, except this next one, anti-popes? Pietro Rainalducci has been the whipping boy of the current Roman “Church” for too long – he was clearly the true heir of St. Peter.
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Much will depend in WHERE the next pope is from… if he were a Latin American, I could imagine a Pope Juan Diego, for example. And in the age of gender-non-conformity, why couldn’t the new Pope take the name of a woman? (Religious women routinely were given names of male saints).
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@Teresa Berger – comment #4:
I love your ideas, from Juan Diego, to using a woman’s name!
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It would be a bombshell for Pope O’Malley to serve us as Francis or Patrick. Or Pope Tagle to serve us as Andrew (Patron St. of Manilla)–the first evangelist.
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@Fr. Jack Feehily – comment #6:
I would like Cardinal Sean to be Pope Sean I, wear a white Franciscan habit, and keep the sandals and beard.
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If it were me, I’d seriously consider keeping my baptismal name. I also like Francis or Norbert!
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@Timothy Johnston – comment #7:
Indeed, whoever is elected should keep his own name, as another incremental step to peeling away the pageantry and pretense.-
@Paul Schlachter – comment #18:
To what “incremental step(s) to pealing away pageantry and pretense” do you refer? It appears to this casual observer that anyone called by any name to be pope in this era is immediately scrutinized by someone somewhere as being an emperor with no clothing, so much so that Christ HImself would be stripped yet again.
So, by that logic, perhaps the next lamb should go all in with Alexander X. -
@Charles Culbreth – comment #19:
Usually a person needs a track record of blindness (John 9:45) plus the finery and pretense to be tagged as a naked emperor.It is part of the burden of leadership, my friend, that for those of us on some sort of stage that people make punditry over us.
I’m not prepared to associate such stuff with the sacrifice of Christ just yet. Anyone named pope will have been a bishop for years, and according to the proverb, hasn’t ever had a bad meal in those years. There are perks.
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@Charles Culbreth – comment #20:
Christ never wore expensive red Prada shoes or slept in the Apostolic “palace”.
I would jettison those two things.Christ stated that He had no place to lay his head, much like many of our brave missionaries.
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@Charles Culbreth – comment #20:
You have noted these steps as well as I have: the retirement of the tiara, the ending of the royal “we,” are just two examples. Each recent pope has taken a step back to being “a man like you,” to quote the first in line.
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I strongly prefer a name with no shibboleth ideological qualities indicating a program or anti-program with reference to a post-Toleration pontificate*. Something like Luke or Raphael… or Joseph … or Joseph Mary.
* Remember, last month was the 1700th anniversary of the so-called Edict of Milan…
If an American is elected, “Rocky” would be Scriptural and eminently American. 🙂
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@John Swencki – comment #9:
Hilarious!
Or how about something that embraces Jews and Muslims. Abraham I
Take a new name! With the great high holy day of Saint Patrick right around the corner, I highly endorse that name! Pope Sean would also work, although Sean is Gaelic for John…
Dave. We need a Pope Dave.
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@Paul Robertson – comment #14:
I agree! 😉
I vote for “Goestheweasel.”
Eleutherius II
I suggest Pope Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
Indeed, he should keep his own given baptismal name and family surname, as one more incremental step in peeling away the pageantry and pretense.
Jim – Your first impressions are never wrong….
I would love to see this next pope pick a completely new name. I’d love to see a Pope Luke or a Pope Francis
Dear Todd and Dr. Dale, I am now convinced that my sarcasm was too veiled. I obviously failed to illustrate that no matter what trappings and accoutrement the next pontiff chooses as adornment, it will neither satisfy supporters nor critics, and that it remains a “job” I wouldn’t wish upon an enemy, much less friend. So, I went for the Borgia solution jokingly, tongue in cheek and not advocating nor rejecting cappa magnas and man-lace. Have a great conclave week!
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@Charles Culbreth – comment #25:
“Have a great conclave week!”You too Charles!
We are all on “smoke alert” and I want to know immediately when smoke is seen from the chimney, white or black(gray?).
Regardless where we are on the Catholic spectrum it is indeed exciting AND I am extremely pleased that what is happening at the Vatican is taking front and center in the media. So much for “no longer relevant”….
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@Charles Culbreth – comment #25:
HA! MAN-LACE!! I seriously don’t get the attraction to it. Just stick to a simple alb for crying out loud. Nor do I understand the attraction with cassocks. Where did this stuff come from??? Are MCs chosen by the pope? Time for Marini to go.-
@Sean Whelan – comment #36:
Your comment about cassocks brought to mind a recent story by Sandro Magister at Chiesa about Fr. Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine of Marseilles – a priest that Magister describes as one whose “Masses are crowded with people. Who hears confessions every evening until late at night. Who has baptized many converts. Who always wears the cassock so that everyone may recognize him as a priest even from far away.”
And he explains why he wears a cassock:
Why the cassock? “For me” – he smiles – “It is a work uniform. It is intended to be a sign for those who meet me, and above all for those who do not believe. In this way I am recognizable as a priest, always. In this way on the streets I take advantage of every opportunity to make friends. Father, someone asks me, where is the post office? Come on, I’ll go with you, I reply, and meanwhile we talk, and I discover that the children of that man are not baptized. Bring them to me, I say in the end; and I often baptize them later. I seek in every way to show with my face a good humanity. Just the other day” – he laughs – “in a cafe an old man asked me which horses he should bet on. I gave him the horses. I asked the Blessed Mother for forgiveness: but you know, I said to her, it is to befriend this man. As a priest who was one of my teachers used to tell those who asked him how to convert the Marxists: ‘One has to become their friend,’ he would reply.”
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@Richard Malcolm – comment #38:
Roman collar isn’t enough??
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He should keep his baptismal name. Only possible exception for a Peter, or anyone named after a pagan god.
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@Andrew Boyd – comment #28:
I’m not sure I would be comfortable with Pope Attilio either. Or Pope Adolfo if they turn to the leader of the Jesuits.
OTOH Pope Prospero has a nice ring to it, especially if he comes from a small island in the Mediterranean.
O brave new world that has such people in it!
Annibale
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@john Robert Francis – comment #29:
As in “Lector,”the Elephant general,” or the presumed “Freemason?”
What an enticing trio of malformed rationales. 😉-
@Charles Culbreth – comment #31:
The Good Vincentian priest
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Pope Annibale (Bugnini) would really cause some conspiracy touting trads to develop sudden apoplexy.
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@Dale Rodrigue – comment #33:
Second only perhaps to Pope Joan (Chittister) -
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@Dale Rodrigue – comment #33:
Pope Annibale (Bugnini) would really cause some conspiracy touting trads to develop sudden apoplexy.
They would be piling up the sandbags at Econe – and probably Denton as well.
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Pope Pius XIII, Leo XIV or Gregory XVII!
(And bring back the tiara, the sedia gestatoria and the papal plural ;-))
So there!
We’ll know soon.
Jayden or Kyle
Who voted Francis?
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@Paul Snyder – comment #44:
I did.
What’s the hold-up on a new post?!
Connie Ostlund : I would love to see this next pope pick a completely new name. I’d love to see a Pope Luke or a Pope Francis
And we got one.
Sorry, was late in the game, but another double-named pope will be nice. Think “John Luke” or (for the trekkies) “James Tiberius.”
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