Pope Francis, when he took the name of Saint Francis at the beginning of his papacy, was a “declaration of who he would be as a Pope,” Dr. Grazie Christie, the medical director of the Archdiocese of Miami, said on Newsmax Monday. 

“He was a Jesuit, of course, but he didn’t take the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, which he could have, and he would have been justified to do,” Christie told Newsmax’s “National Report” while reflecting on his life and death. “But he took Saint Francis and I think that that gave a stamp to his papacy right away.” 

The Pontiff rejected pomp and circumstance, and “he used to talk about being that the shepherd should smell of his sheep, and that is something that showed all the time throughout his entire papacy,” she added.

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