So a new Pope has been appointed and he has taken the name of Francis.
But do we know which Francis he is named after yet? I have heard news commentators announcing confidently, including the one on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning, that he is named after Francis of Assisi. The gaff this morning was that the commentator then went on to quote “the prayer of St Francis…”
The prayer he was referring to is the anonymous twentieth century French prayer ” Where there is…”
If we still have no declaration yet my assumption would be that, as a member of the Jesuits, he would be named after Francis Xavier (1506-1552) a student of Ignatius of Loyola, and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (also known as Jesuits)
Another thought. If the Pope is infallible, why don’t they get the last infallible Pope to select the next one? 😉