Angelus News | July 29, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 15
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
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A reformer’s voice<br />
Behind the little-understood legacy of the<br />
late cardinal who helped name the pope.<br />
BY JOHN L. ALLEN JR.<br />
Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the former archbishop of São Paolo and former prefect of the Dicastery for Clergy, died <strong>July</strong> 4 at the age of 87. He is pictured with Pope Francis<br />
during the pope’s election night appearance on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on March 13, 2013. | CNS/PAUL HARING<br />
ROME — By common consensus, Pope Francis<br />
is a reforming pope. Indeed, one could make the<br />
argument that the very first decision the new pontiff<br />
made, the one that introduced him to the world, signaled a<br />
dramatic reform course.<br />
Recall the sequence when a new pope is elected. First, he<br />
has to accept election, which is the last choice he’ll ever<br />
make as anything less than the Vicar of Christ; then he has<br />
to pick a name, which is the symbolic opening move of the<br />
new papacy.<br />
For centuries, many theologians and Church historians<br />
had maintained a short list of papal names that could never<br />
be used. There could never be a “Pope Jesus,” because no<br />
pontiff could arrogate to himself the name of the Savior,<br />
however common a name it might be in Spanish-speaking<br />
lands. There could also never again be a “Pope Peter,”<br />
since the first pope is in a class all by himself.<br />
By a similar logic, many experts felt there could never be<br />
a “Pope Francis,” since the Poor Man of Assisi was such a<br />
singular and iconic figure in Church history, his name had<br />
to be forever restricted to his own memory.<br />
All that changed in March 2013, when Cardinal Jorge<br />
Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected to the papacy.<br />
The new pope would later recall in a session with the press<br />
that it was Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Brazil, a longtime<br />
fixture in Latin American Catholicism, who inspired his<br />
choice of name.<br />
“When things started getting a little dangerous, he<br />
cheered me on,” the new pope said, referring to the conclave<br />
in which he was elected. “And when the vote came<br />
to two-thirds, the usual applause began, as the pope had<br />
been elected. He [Cardinal Hummes] hugged me, kissed<br />
24 • ANGELUS • <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2022</strong>
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