I'm still *startled regularly* that no one has made the obvious connection between this Pope's choice of names, and the hagiography of Saint Francis of Assisi, the Fool of God who is patron saint of *ecology and animals*.
It's the first thing that occurred to me when I read the initial press release for the assumed name for His Holiness, and first of THAT name for the Papacy. To call himself Francis, means that his priorities are much different than any of the previous office holders. He is the first Jesuit Pope as well, and he was on pilgrimage to Jerusalem cut short when the surrounding countries started the Yom Kippur War on our holiest day. He has Argentinian community college level certificates in chemistry and philosophy.
And I'm Jewish, just grew up with a lot of Italian Catholics very fond of Saint Francis, and a Greek Orthodox priest mentor for my mom who said Jesuits were the only Roman Catholics who understood logic as well as the Greeks or the Jews. ;-)
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Francis, patron saint of animals and ecology
Date: 2020-01-20 01:04 pm (UTC)It's the first thing that occurred to me when I read the initial press release for the assumed name for His Holiness, and first of THAT name for the Papacy. To call himself Francis, means that his priorities are much different than any of the previous office holders. He is the first Jesuit Pope as well, and he was on pilgrimage to Jerusalem cut short when the surrounding countries started the Yom Kippur War on our holiest day. He has Argentinian community college level certificates in chemistry and philosophy.
And I'm Jewish, just grew up with a lot of Italian Catholics very fond of Saint Francis, and a Greek Orthodox priest mentor for my mom who said Jesuits were the only Roman Catholics who understood logic as well as the Greeks or the Jews. ;-)