Whoops - I was responding to AK84.
Holy crap: a Jesuit?
I guess it’s better than the Latin for “I deserve this!”
I see cites that he earned masters in chemistry, but I haven’t found any that he taught chemistry - can anyone find one?
Edit: found it, in teh place mentioned above World News: Latest International Headlines, Video, and Breaking Stories From Around The Globe | NBC News
Brian
A very good choice, to me. A little odd, perhaps, seeing as how the Jesuits are the Pope’s own shocktroops, but all the ones I’ve encountered are great guys. You have to give him the education card at least, and he’s a teacher to boot? GOLDEN!
Frank’s a nice name. Frank, Frankie, Fran, Frannie… little Frannie poo…
I find this an interesting position to take.
Do you not believe he exists? Do you not believe he is the leader of the Catholic Church?
mmm
Also, I believe Bricker was speaking for himself and other Catholics.
Pope Pepe (Pepe’s short for Francisco).
He sounds like a better choice than Ratzy, but I guess anyone would have been a better choice (his stance on homosexuality, contraception and euthanasia are abhorrent to me).
We played “Prophecy of the Popes” at work by opening the dictionary and looking at the first adjective, then noun, you could find. I got “Hypersensitive shooting star.”
The new pope is from Argentina, whose flag has a sun in the center. The sun is a…what, class? That’s right, a star. Now to see if he’s a gun owner or quick to cry.
I guess it’s no surprise that he’s a hard liner. I thought the position on contraception was softening in the church. I guess not.
You’ve outdone yourself!
Question: What’s the significance of a Jesuit being pope? Not being a Christian, I have no idea what it means.
Within 30 seconds of the announcement. As soon as I figured out which cardinal it was, I checked his page. It had already been renamed.
What it makes me think of:
Jesuits are generally thought of as mode intellectual/scientific Catholics. Heavily involved in education. Not what I tend to think of as super touchy-feely in the faith. More intellectually rigorous.
But then he chose Francis. St. Francis of Assisi has a different group, the Franciscans, whose focus is helping the poor and downtrodden.
So, an interesting juxtaposition of two strains of Catholicism.
The Jesuits were created as a counter-Reform organization. A kind of shock troops of Roman Catholicism. They have the reputation of being very dedicated to orthodoxy and using casuistic arguments. They’re one notch below Opus Dei.
There’s more than one Francis though, the new pope might be name checkingFrancis Xavier- one of the first 7 Jesuits.
I honestly doubt that. Why wouldn’t he go for Ignatius? He had to know people would think of the big Francis, not more minor Francises.
This is a guy who has made a big deal of humility and poverty. In little blurbs about him, that’s how he’s identified, as someone who has made a big deal over the poor and his own dedication to leading a simple, humble life.
InEvitable, as it were? 
A notch below them how? In what regard?
Interesting fact: Francis is the first new regnal name (I don’t count “John Paul” as new) since Lando in AD 913, and this pope is probably the very first ever* (unless you count Peter)† to take a new regnal name that wasn’t his personal name.
- There are many popes before Lando whose personal names are not known, but I suspect that they all took their own names or one of the previous names.
† Simon Bar-Jonah was apparently using Peter (Cephas) as his personal name during the life of Jesus, which I think pre-dates his popeness.