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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
Thinking a little, I wonder if a new Pope might have taken the name of Pius, after the two that reigned during the previous World Wars?
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Adm.,
I think there's a saying that the times are delivered unto them the pope that is needed and/or deserved, or something along those lines. There would be a certain historical symmetry to having another wartime pope by the same name. In this case, Pope Pius XIII. Of course, the new pope may want to chart something of a more active course than his predecessors and might decide on a different name, but I think that's certainly plausible.
Tony