Molly MacPherson, North Vancouver: “I think John is as good as anything. I named my son John. Maybe Chris. No, I like John.”
Photograph by: submitted , for North Shore News
The symbolic aspect in the name a new pope chooses is a tradition as old as the election process of the Roman Catholic Church’s “messenger of God.”
As Pope Benedict XVI starts to rest his very large and ornamented hat on the new pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 265th successor to St. Peter decided to go in a new direction and choose a name never used before: “Francis,” a name strongly associated with St. Francis of Assisi, a man of simplicity and humility.
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Molly MacPherson, North Vancouver: “I think John is as good as anything. I named my son John. Maybe Chris. No, I like John.”
Photograph by: submitted , for North Shore News
