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France is a gurls name.....

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well if that was the intent, he chose poorly.

Francis I was weak. He was the wife of Maria Theresa.... LOL.

He never really ruled anything, his wife was the boss.


If I were Pope trying to link to the HRE, that wouldnt be the guy I would connect to... just saying....

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So, can anyone give me the Reader's Digest version of how they choose the Pope's name?

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I was hoping someone would jump on the bandwagon and not research ...

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He wanted a masculine name.

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Never mind - - googled:

Once the cardinals select the new pope, in this case Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the real decision-making begins: That pope will have to settle on a new name.

“In the Bible, when you get a new job from God, you pick a new name or you’re given a new name, and that’s the [same] idea — they feel they’ve chosen to do this very weighty job and they need a name that will sort of help them and inspire them,” said William Portier, the chair of Catholic theology at the University of Dayton, in a CTV News report.

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Mercurius was the first Pope to change his name. He did so because he didn't think it proper to carry the name of a pagan god (mercury).

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This new Pope is 76 years old.
I figured they would choose someone
a bit younger this time.

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:nod

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I understand that this is the first Pope to go by Francis.
Evidently taken from St Francis of Assissi.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/13/world/...ame/?hpt=hp_t1

CNN Vatican analyst: Pope Francis' name 'precedent shattering'