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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this really the first burger pope?

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, and super suspicious as well because he was a cardinal for only a year.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I bless your computer, my child.

I bless your computer, my child.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

69 years old? He would never get elected in America so young.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why do they change their names?

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

The biblical explanation:

The first pope was the apostle Simon, Jesus personally renamed him to Peter, meaning rock, because he was being reborn to become the foundation/rock of the new church. Subsequent popes rename themselves to signify their rebirth.

The historical explanation:

in 533 John II decided it would be inappropriate for a Pope to be named after a pagan god (Mercurius, his birth name), by the 10th century popes were largely from France and Germany but wanted to sound like their italian predecessors and so began renaming themselves. This happened enough to just become a tradition, with the last pope not getting renamed being in 1555 (Marceullus II)

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

It started when one of the early popes having a pagan god name. Then becomes a tradition for Non-Roman names.(source)
Other articles also mention that some want to give signal the direction of their papacy

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gotta check off all the items on the BITE model /s

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I just twisted up into funny shapes like Professor Crocker shouting "Operation Gladio"