What’s in a name? How a new pope chooses their title
Global News
A new pope could be chosen before the week is through as cardinals hold a conclave, and the name the new pontiff chooses could signal where he intends to take the church.
Cardinals have been sequestered in the Vatican ahead of the conclave Wednesday, where they will vote on who will be next to lead the Catholic Church.
They won’t emerge until white smoke has billowed into the air and the senior cardinal has announced “Habemus papam” — “We have a pope.”
And he will tell those gathered at St. Peter’s Square the pontiff’s baptismal name in Latin, followed by his papal name.
When it comes to the pope, a name can say a lot.
But what goes into choosing a papal name?
Cardinals who enter the conclave may have a name in mind that they’ll use if they’re named the new pontiff, according to Natalia Imperatori-Lee, chair of the department of religious studies and philosophy at Manhattan University in New York.
“Once you know that you’re going into that room and that somebody who walks in with you or yourself is walking out the pope, yeah, you’re going to think about it,” she told Global News in an interview.
That name though can vary depending on how the cardinal wants the church to proceed, with continuity or discontinuity of their predecessor’s papacy being one of the questions that’s top of mind.
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