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There does seem to be too much emotion for the occasion ... I'd always welcomed the petra-petros story as one of the rare examples of a god actually making a pun; with a universe to run, you'd think a sense of humour would be essential. As for non-Catholics not acepting the list of popes - why should they? Who would expect them to? The lists exist, like the lists in the OT of all those unknowns who putatively begat each other and then vanished from history. Like them or not, they're out there, to be peacably ignored by anyone who wants to.