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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

rustbeltvoice

(430 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2014, 02:05 PM Feb 2014

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was to have been John XXIV

http://davidgibson.religionnews.com/2014/02/11/pope-francis-wanted-called-pope-john-xxiv/

....“John, I would have called myself John, like the Good Pope; I would have been completely inspired by him,” Bergoglio told Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, according to a new book by longtime Italian Vaticanista Gianluca Barile.

(“Giovanni, mi sarei chiamato Giovanni, come il Papa Buono, mi sarei ispirato completamente a lui.”)....