# White smoke! We have a Pope! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838 "2013-03-13T18:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/41 "2013-03-13T18:54:06Z")
They’ve actually announced that all three top papal candidates will be combined to be pope. A Human Centi-Pope, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/42 "2013-03-13T18:55:22Z")
Scola looks most papal to me. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/43 "2013-03-13T18:55:32Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > They’re not messing around with this “get it done before Easter” business. As Larry the Cardinal Guy said, “git er’ done” ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/44 "2013-03-13T18:56:32Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > All the names on that list were popes. It’s a list of pope names. You’re assuming I looked at the list instead of randomly focusing on a word from \*\*Tom Scud’s \*\*post. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/45 "2013-03-13T18:57:04Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > (For those wanting to play at home: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal\_name.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_name.)) You’d think someone would have taken Pope Jesus by now. Or would that seem a bit stuck up? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/46 "2013-03-13T18:59:37Z")
A name you can trust-Pope Judas. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/47 "2013-03-13T19:00:19Z")
May the blessings of the Holy Spirit descend upon and remain with the new Pope forever, and with my brothers and sisters in the Roman Catholic church. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/48 "2013-03-13T19:02:56Z")
Bless my four-year-old daughter. On being told by my wife about the new pope she declared “It’s daddy!” So I guess I’m to be Pope Daddy I. Papa Papa, as it were. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/49 "2013-03-13T19:12:16Z")
Here we go… ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/50 "2013-03-13T19:13:28Z")
Who? Francis? From Argentina? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/51 "2013-03-13T19:13:41Z")
It’s Cardinal Bergoglio. He’ll be Pope Francis. _In nomine Eris, in Principia Discordiae_, please treat him right. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/52 "2013-03-13T19:15:04Z")
Francisco! That’s fun to say! ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/53 "2013-03-13T19:16:03Z")
I think I said in another thread I thought it odd there had never been a Pope Francis. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/54 "2013-03-13T19:16:38Z")
Aw, I could have had money on that. I wish to claim first use of the phrase “Lighten up, Francis” in this context. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/55 "2013-03-13T19:17:26Z")
Don’t cry for me Argentina! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/56 "2013-03-13T19:18:04Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > You’d think someone would have taken Pope Jesus by now. > > Or would that seem a bit stuck up? Nobody’s even had the chutzpah to name himself Peter II, never mind Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/57 "2013-03-13T19:18:33Z")
Heh. Bergoglio’s Wikipedia page already redirects to “Pope Francis”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/58 "2013-03-13T19:19:12Z")
Francis sounds like a reformer name. St. Francis is definitely not a pompous and portentous name. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/59 "2013-03-13T19:19:33Z")
A Jesuit. Very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838/60 "2013-03-13T19:23:42Z")
He looks older than Benedict. He also looks kinda of severe. And I think he has a sense of humor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-smoke-we-have-a-pope/652838.md?page=4)