Posted on 05/10/2025 1:28:31 PM PDT by xxqqzz
Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIV.
The 69-year-old is the first American to become a pontiff and will lead members of the Catholic Church's global community of 1.4bn people.
Born in Chicago, he is seen as a reformer and worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before being made an archbishop there.
He also has Peruvian nationality and is fondly remembered as a figure who worked with marginalised communities and helped build bridges in the local Church.
Why do popes choose different names? One of the first acts of a new pope is to choose a new name, changing their baptismal one.
The decision is part of a longstanding tradition but it has not always been like that.
For more than 500 years, popes used their own names.
This then changed to symbolic names in order to simplify their given names or to refer to previous pontiffs.
Over the years, popes have often chosen the names of their immediate or distant predecessors out of respect or admiration and to signal the desire to follow in their footsteps and continue the most relevant pontificates.
For example, Pope Francis said his name honoured St Francis of Assisi, and that he was inspired by his Brazilian friend Cardinal Claudio Hummes.
Why has the new Pope chosen Leo XIV as a name? The new Pope has not yet specified why he has decided to be known as Pope Leo XIV.
There could be many reasons for it, but the name Leo has been used by many popes over the years.
Pope Leo I, also known as St Leo the Great, was pontiff between 440 and 461 AD.
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Maybe they were thinking of birth signs, but erred a bit. I think Leo is July 23 to August 22
Whatever the reason, I suspect it had nothing to do with the cartoon character in the eponymous movie Leo.
Headline sucked me in ... :-)
“Why has the new Pope chosen Leo XIV as a name?
The new Pope has not yet specified why he has decided to be known as Pope Leo XIV.”
His star 🌟 sign 🪧 ?
EXACTLY what I was thinking of posting. Great minds and all that.
He is a Virgo. Maybe has he the moon or something in Leo.
A working class hero, like his most recent namesake, Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903)
Sounds better than Pope Bob would have.
There is a rock song from the 70’s by that name.
Leo,
Woo oh oh oh ah
He’s for the money
He’s for the show
Leo…
Or something like that.
It place on the classic rock or classic vinyl station now.
I saw a clip of him today in which he said he chose Leo as a recognition of Leo XIII, and especially his encyclical Rerem Normvarum, which addressed the threats to human dignity by both the industrial revolution and rising socialism. The Pope mentioned current threats to human dignity such as AI, but I am sure will find others to address.
The song is “Lido” not “Leo”.
Well close, “Lido” Boz Scaggs
“Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He’s for the money, he’s for the show
Lido’s waitin’ for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot ‘fore we quit it
One more for the road”
Maybe to break up the old “peter the Roman ‘ antichrist mythos where folks believed that Francis was the final pope before the Beast!
Maybe he was channelling the song Louie Louie
(Infamous as was analysed by the cia for hidden messages)
He was made Pope the old Chicago way...the Vatican’s new..........wait for it....here it comes.....Al Ca-”pope”!
Headline: “Pope Leo says AI is main challenge for humanity”
Silly me, I thought the salvation of souls was the main challenge for humanity. Sounds like another “politician Pope” to me.
Per . . . Pachamama?
It’s “Robert Cardinal Prevost,” dumbass editor.
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