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| View Poll Results: What name will the next Pope take? | |||
| John Paul III |
   
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1 | 3.03% |
| Paul VII |
  
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1 | 3.03% |
| John XXIV |
  
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3 | 9.09% |
| Pius XIII |
  
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3 | 9.09% |
| Benedict XVI |
  
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3 | 9.09% |
| Leo XIV |
  
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3 | 9.09% |
| Gregory XVII |
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1 | 3.03% |
| Clement XV |
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1 | 3.03% |
| Innocent XIV |
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0 | 0% |
| Alexander VIII |
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2 | 6.06% |
| Urban IX |
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3 | 9.09% |
| Some other name that's been used before |
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0 | 0% |
| A name never used by any previous Pope |
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12 | 36.36% |
| Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#2
10-18-2003, 04:39 PM
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Can you explain the significance? Will a pope pick the name of a historical/biblical figure he admires? Any random name? Does it have anything to do with his nationality? Does the pope pick it himself or the college of cardinals?
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#3
10-18-2003, 05:21 PM
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Damn. Do you know what this means???? aces and I answered the pope question wrong in the Jeopardy game!
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#4
10-18-2003, 05:37 PM
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I'm thinking maybe "Edmund I."
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#5
10-18-2003, 06:59 PM
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The newly elected Pope picks the name himself, and I suppose it doesn't necessarily have signifcance. There's nothing to stop him from using a dart board to make the choice. However, usually, he'd have some reason -- I read that the current Pope seriously considered being "Stanislaus" (after the patron saint of Poland) before settling on "John Paul."
If the next Pope reused the name of a recent Pope, I suspect that would be taken as a signal that he admired the earlier Pope and intended to follow a somewhat similar philosophy. I think the next Pope will want a change from "John Paul," and "Pius" is not at all likely either, because the most recent Pius (XII) is a figure of some controversy.
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#7
10-18-2003, 07:32 PM
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Well, I will take Leo then. No, I don't have any reason. Isn't this poll a little bit, um.... I don't know the word. You know, the pope is extremely frail, and it's sort of like we're doing a poll on November 1 as to whom the new Pres will pick for his cabinet.
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#8
10-18-2003, 08:11 PM
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10-18-2003, 10:42 PM
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I think if the next Pope knows what good for him, he'll want to modernize some of the philosophies of the church and so will choose a name that reflects that. That pretty much rules out any name that's ever been used before.
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10-18-2003, 10:54 PM
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