Said during an interview in 2016 link despite me being a lib who reads Pope shit Honestly Critical support for Francis if only so that he can continue to give the Tradcaths huge cases of butthurt and personally give me an easy road to introducing dialectical materialism and later full on socialism to the Latinx youth I work with.
Alright so Francis’s main thing was his dedication to the poor and downtrodden. To the point where Franciscan brothers are required to take a major oath of poverty And Francis said In his final writing that living amongst the poor as one of them was the key tenant to his Order.
So a Pope taking his name is showing a connection and emphasis on the poor That most Popes previously wouldn’t want to make or have.
Last couple popes actually represent this
JP2 chose them name of his predecessor to show his commitment to continuing reforms (JP1 took the names of the 2 Previous Popes Who had lead Vatican 2)
Benedict took his name to show he was as traditional as physically possible
Francis took his name and made changes to show the Catholic Church is trying to emphasis the poor and helping others. Same reason he removed that god awful throne and replaced it with a wooden chair and added a bunch of admentites for the poor to use in Vatican city