Cardinal Ratzinger chose this name to honor a peace-seeking pope, not the IXth, who sold the papacy
This was not what he had wanted; he so desperately desired the 
peace and ... [ix] H. J. Lawlor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of 
Armagh, ..... or a description of the pope's name, country, family, or title, when 
cardinal.