Why can't people do that.
Anyways, despite not having any kind of belief system besides Flow Theory, I've always liked the Pope, even though he said that abortions were like the Holocaust and gays were part of a conspiracy of evil. It's just hard for me to dislike him. I suppose a superficially Catholic upbringing has a lot to do with it, even though I was never baptized or anything. It's really been sad to watch him slip further and further into poor health, as the great things he's done for the Church all over the world (including finally conceding in 1992 that the Sun was the center of our solar system [sounds like a joke but it really is a big deal] and at some other point saying that evolutionism was fairly valid) make me pull for the guy.
Besides, there's the simple reason that it'll be really hard to get used to talking about a Pope with a different name. I can only imagine how long it'll take me to get used to saying King Charles III after Queen Elizabeth dies.