Today, the Feast of Pope Saint John II, the day of his inauguration as Pope, one thing that occurred to me is the significant fact that neither of his two successors took his name. Neither Benedict XVI nor Francis, each surely with his own particular reasons, did not choose the papal name of John Paul III. That is a clear indication that the trajectory of the Vatican Council II experiment is over, on all counts.
On a separate note, it is most doubtful that we shall have a Francis II to succeed the present pontiff.
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