[Campion]

The article is really fairly stupid. You don't have to know much Italian to know that "Francesco di Pietro (Peter) di Bernardone" doesn't mean anything like "Peter the Roman". There's nothing like "Romani" in there.

Woo-hoo! So Francis is of Italian descent ... like about 230 of the preceding 263 popes. That's certainly the clincher.

The alleged "Malachy prophecies" are phony anyway; a Renaissance-era forgery intended to influence a Papal election. (They failed, BTW.)

[firebrand]

A friend who reads the Catholic end times magazine has told me there is a link in prophecy to Francis’s last name. I don’t know whether this is from the magazine or not. I’m sorry I don’t have all the facts at my fingertips right now, but I will ask her.