Comments on: …5,6,7,8 Pope Francis starts with a clean slate http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2013/03/14/5678-pope-francis-starts-with-a-clean-slate/ The Christianity Stack Exchange Blog Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Peter Turner http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2013/03/14/5678-pope-francis-starts-with-a-clean-slate/#comment-15090 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:59:40 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=1854#comment-15090 His name wasn’t quite as original as Lando or Francis. I think the point of carrying an existing papal name is continuity, honor and some distinction.

That’s why the holy father rarely chooses the name of their immediate predecessor. But Pope John Paul I was really honoring the popes of the 2nd Vatican council with his name. Pope Francis is drawing attention to St. Francis of Assisi for the most part, but also St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis de Sales and Francis Borigia (according to Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J. of Ignatius Press)

]]> By: Jonathan http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2013/03/14/5678-pope-francis-starts-with-a-clean-slate/#comment-14998 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:13:45 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=1854#comment-14998 What about Pope John Paul I in 1978?

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