March 01, 2013 03:15 PM UTC

Poll: What's the Best Pope Name?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Pope Benedict XVI finished his last day of popeness on Thursday. Since it's a Friday and we all could use a minor distraction from the heavy political issues in the news, we thought it would be a nice time for a poll.

Newly-elected popes choose a new formal ("regnal") name immediately after selected. Usually the new pope selects a name from a list of those used by previous popes, of which there are many. Click after the jump to vote on your favorite regnal name; we've listed only the most rarely-used names to make the list more fun. Oh, and we didn't include Hilarius, because that's clearly the best name of the bunch.

Now…click the link and get to voting.

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As an aside, if you are interested in specific candidates, CNN takes a look at the front-runners for the papacy in a nifty slide comparison. Our favorite part of the CNN examination of candidates is this line:

The cardinals who seem to be front-runners to replace the current pope are referred to as "papabile," or translated from the Italian, "pope-able."

Pretty cool, eh? For those cardinals who don't get selected to the top job, at least they can always brag to their friends that they are "pope-able."