The Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope, and I am not happy.  I counted myself among the "Anybody but Ratzinger" crowd.  Ratzinger has been very conservative during his tenure as Dean of the Cardinals, and I don't agree with that stance.  A person like Cardinal Danneels, who is moderately progressive and has an incredible moral authority in Belgium would have been better, in my opinion.

Still, what's done is done.  I will give Benedict XVI the benefit of the doubt (not that I have much choice), and let's be realistic: he is 78 years old so this won't be another 26 years papacy.  I guess it will be much shorter than that, maybe 5 years or so.