A friend told me that he has recently done an online questionnaire as to which, amongst recent Popes, he was most alike. In his case the answer was Pius VII. The questionnaire did not go too far back into Papal history, but if it did...
Well of course you might well turn out to be a saint, but just suppose you turned out to be Paul IV, Julius II, Alexander VI, Urban VI, John XXII, Boniface VIII, Celestine V (who was canonized as St Peter of Morone, of course), Innocent IV, Innocent III, Urban II, Gregory VII, Benedict XI, John XII ( Wikipedia is restrained in its details as to the circumstances of his fatal stroke...) or Stephen VI. That is not to say they were bad men, and in many cases proved to be great Popes, but they were, well, interesting and characterful.
Mind you, you would really worry if you were John XX...
Divine Worship Prefect Roche: “Leo will not change Traditionis or go back
to Summorum.”
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From his interview to British Catholic periodical “The Tablet,” the words
of Cardinal Roche are peremptory: “But no, Pope Leo is not going to change
Tradi...
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