First, it wasn't Nostradamus, it was the 12th‑century Archbishop of Armagh, Malacy who's prophecy you refer to.
In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit [i.e., as bishop]. Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e. Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.
Certainly these are trying times for the Church. I've heard numerous pundits refer to the new pope as someone solid, confident, and etc. I take it he is solid/strong/unmoving in his beliefs/actions, i.e., like a rock ( Pretrus ), the word Jesus used to describe Simon.
As for his Roman attribute, his surname, Bergoglio, speaks to that.
Petrus Romanus
"The Roman Rock"
We're not out of the woods yet!
Just sayin'...
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He is Roman, because he is Italian, and also because the Holy See is now in Rome.
The Peter part I have yet to understand, but, Malachy's other mottoes were not only similarly opaque, some were a pretty good reach.
Maybe the Rock refers to the Office itself.
Maybe it refers to his obstinacy, which we have yet to see...
He could still be Peter the Roman.
He had a forth cousin, thrice removed, who lived next door to a guy named Peter.
That seals, it, he's the guy in the Malacy prophecy.
Yeah this guy is not what we would be led to believe...
How in the hell can the Catholic Church elect a shepherd that only brings 20 percent of his flock to mass? When his fields are 92percent baptized in the faith?
On those numbers alone he is not a papa of evangelical means....