Malachy prophecy?......lol
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/20/world/main265822.shtml
“I have the joy to announce that on Feb. 21, the feast of the throne of St. Peter, I will hold a consistory in which, breaking yet again the numerical limit set by Pope Paul VI ... I will nominate 37 new cardinals. Here are their names,” John Paul said, going on to read them, one by one, during his usual Sunday noon appearance from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.
Other prominent names include a Vietnamese, Monsignor Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan; the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio; the archbishop of Westminster, England, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor; and the archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, Ignacio Antonio Velasco Garcia.
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That’s good enough for me....lol
I believe coming events will see Pope Francis the first, as a rock for the Catholic faith to rally around, just as Malachy predicted. He is a better fit in retrospect than my pick, and in a good way.
I see perhaps a bit of subliminal motive behind the selection of Francis the first for his new name though. lol
Tom Horm likes him: Pope Francis history's 'final' pontiff?
I'm struck by the alpha/omega aspect of the prophecy in the attribute (rock) assigned to the last pontiff matching a similar trait Jesus saw in Simon Peter.
Astounding actually, now that we see it fulfilled.