Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So, he's going with Francis I
There's never been a Francis? Huh. Someone in Slate letters said its referencing Francis Assisi not Francis Xavier. All I know about those particularly names is that my father (who has the middle name Francis) went with Xavier over Assisi for his confirmation name because he was a 13 year old boy surrounded by 13 year old boys.
I'm guessing that's less of a problem at the Vatican. Hoping? Well, I wouldn't put any money on it.
Here's a profile NCR did on the new pope last week, when he was still just a contender: [link]
Nice to see that, while he's certainly not a proponent of liberation theology, he seems to walk the talk when it comes to the poor.
St. Francis of Assisi was a reformer. I'm hoping the selection of that name means the same thing for the new Pope.
Scola is even worse than Bergoglio, though neither of them have any leg to stand on in regards to what David said upthread. I'll take small incremental improvements.
Nice to see that, while he's certainly not a proponent of liberation theology, he seems to walk the talk when it comes to the poor.
Yeah, they seem to have chosen the lesser evil.
If the Catholic Church re-focuses around helping the poor, I'll call it good. Not that I'm Catholic.
I didn't realize the Our Father and Hail Mary weren't standard things for a new pope to do until Cokie Roberts told me, so that's cool -- as she said, any little Catholic child could pray along with the pope.
There's never been a Francis? Huh. Someone in Slate letters said its referencing Francis Assisi not Francis Xavier. All I know about those particularly names is that my father (who has the middle name Francis) went with Xavier over Assisi for his confirmation name because he was a 13 year old boy surrounded by 13 year old boys.
I went with Francis of Assisi for my confirmation. Patron saint of animals.
If the Catholic Church re-focuses around helping the poor, I'll call it good. Not that I'm Catholic.
Same here.
Jesuits have a reputation for being scholarly, right? And Benedictines have the whole hospitality/welcoming thing? Is it Franciscans who are extra serious about poverty? Any other short hands? What have prior pontiffs tended to be?
My knowledge on this is very higgelty-pigglety.
I like observing the workings of millennia-old organizations and seeing how the ancient ways creep through.
Jesuits have a reputation for being scholarly, right?
Super-duperly so. (And, contrary to the new pope's reputation, they tend to live large. My brother's high school was run by Jesuits, and his joke was "I've seen their idea of poverty, so I don't want to know what they consider chastity.")