carter@huey.css.gov (Sam Carter) (07/26/90)
In a recent discussion with some of my friends, I remarked that there have been no popes named Peter other that Peter himself. None of us knew why this to be true. Is there an edict against a pope selecting the name Peter or is it just tradition that no one has or will select that name? D E O G R A T I A S Sam Carter (carter@huey.css.gov) Springfield, Va.
dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (07/30/90)
In article <Jul.26.01.47.06.1990.26496@athos.rutgers.edu>, carter@huey.css.gov (Sam Carter) writes... >In a recent discussion with some of my friends, I remarked that there >have been no popes named Peter other that Peter himself. None of us >knew why this to be true. Is there an edict against a pope selecting >the name Peter or is it just tradition that no one has or will select >that name? Whoa. I was just thinking the same thing myself earlier this evening. I know of no edict prohibiting the choice of that name, I think it's largely tradition and a certain degree of humbleness. It would be quite a challenge to live up to the name, after all. -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147
geoff@uunet.uu.net (Geoff Allen) (08/08/90)
dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) writes concerning why there have been no popes who have chosen the name Peter: >Whoa. I was just thinking the same thing myself earlier this >evening. I know of no edict prohibiting the choice of that name, >I think it's largely tradition and a certain degree of >humbleness. It would be quite a challenge to live up to the name, >after all. And living up to the name Paul or John *isn't* a challenge? :^) Or both at the same time (i.e. John Paul)? -- Geoff Allen \ Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best--- uunet!pmafire!geoff \ or worst, depending on what is posted on any bigtex!pmafire!geoff \ particular day. --David Fiedler in _Byte_
BINDNER@auvm.auvm.edu (Michael Bindner) (08/12/90)
I refer my fellow hackers to St. Malachy's prophesy on Peter II, which is 2 popes after this one - as well as the last Roman Pontif (though I would argue not necessarily the last heir to St. Peter, as Pope is a Roman word which does not apply if Rome is destroyed as the prophesy seems to indicate. Any other comments on the coming crisis? I am particularly interested in hearing views on the prophesies of the great monarch.