Vatican City, March 14: What's in a name? A lot if you're the new pope.
At the end of the conclave, immediately after the chosen cardinal accepts, a senior cardinal asks him: "By which name will you be known?"
The name he chooses will be his name as pope from then on.
"They (the popes) can choose the name they want, but in recent times the usual criteria has been to choose an apostle's name", said Bruno Bartoloni, an expert on the Vatican, on Monday.
