[dangus]

A few points:

1) Cardinal Romeo is eligible to be pope, but as a 73-year-old who’s still in a backwater, he’s hardly on anyone’s list of papabile, and shooting his mouth to Chicoms about the Pope being assassinated and diving into Italian gossip rags didn’t exactly earn his any positive attention.

2) Yes, Popes take new names. But then why does a name like “Paolo Romeo” get you all goose-pimply.

3) Fortune-telling is for basic-cable slack-jaws. tabloid papers and snake-charming hicks. There’s plenty of Catholic prophesying out there (St John Bosco, Fatima, etc.), but none of it having much to fortune-telling.

Grow up.

[Samogon]

Already grown, wish you likewise.
Comparing gossips and childish conspiracy theories to the Prophesy of St. Malachy is immature, to say the list - the prophecy was remarkably accurate to the date. As of “papability”, nobody really knows what are the chances of Romeo - remember 0bama in 2006-2007? Who would have thunk?!
The name Romeo could be significant, or could mean nothing, time will tell, but it certainly rang the bell in me.

[Samogon]

In case you are wondering:

Romeo - From the Italian Medieval religious name meaning “pilgrim to Rome” (Late Latin Romaeus, a derivative of Roma).

http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Romeo.html