Reason for Popes new name

[mommy_k]

Someone told me that Francis of Assisi was in an old church in Italy and the crucifix hanging there talked to him and said “rebuild my church”. At the time, St. Francis literally had this church rebuilt. Our new Holy Father took this name for the same intention, although not literally.
Any one else heard of this?

 

[Ad_Orientem]

From CatholicHerald.co.uk:

He said that he was seated next to his friend, the Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, during the conclave. “When the matter became dangerous,” he said, “he comforted me.”

When it became clear the cardinals had elected him Pope, he said, Cardinal Hummes “embraced me and kissed me and said: ‘Don’t forget the poor’… and that struck me… the poor…Immediately I thought of St Francis of Assisi. Francis was a man of peace, a man of poverty, a man who loved and protected creation.”

That was when he chose the name Francis, he explained, adding: “How I would love a Church that is poor and for the poor.”

 

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[po18guy]

The Holy Spirit at work. In the 18th century, the Church suppressed the Jesuit order. Franciscans, if not exactly complicit in that move, replaced many Jesuits in their former work. Since that time, there remain remnants of bad blood between the Jesuits and Franciscans. Remnants. A Jesuit choosing the name Francis sends a signal of peace-making and that all is forgiven.

 

[Domiy]

Whether the Pope just the name for Francis for the reason of being the ‘one to rebuild the Church’ is irrelevant. The only thing that matter is this; that he chose the name Francis, and Francis was someone who was called and inspired to rebuild the Church (not physically, but spiritually). We pray that this is the same intention God has for Pope Francis; it could not have come at a more important time!