Boston being the Cathaholic hub that it is, the hardreading staff is not surprised at the hallelujah chorus in today’s local papers.
Start with the Boston Herald, which doesn’t measure its coverage of newly minted Pope Francis I, it weighs it.
Page One of our feisty local tabloid:
And then . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Campaign Outsider 
That would be Pope Francis, not Pope Francis I.
Unless, of course, you are John Carroll I.
Lest you argue the point, the pope’s people pointedly pressed this papal preference, informing the world to drop the “I”.
Hey, Mike – you do everything the pope’s people tell you to do?
And, actually, I’m John Carroll Jr. Not to get technical about it.
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So, was John Carroll, Sr. known as John Carroll, Sr. before you were born?
Wait for Pope Francis II, then you can call the current guy numero uno.
No – he was called Jack.
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