New Pope

Catholics all over the world - in Europe and the US anyway - will be praying for the health of Pope =Ratzinger - sorry, I mean Benedict 16 - that it will deteriorate quickly enough to prevent the health of the Church from doing likewise. His election also meant that calls for an Islamic Pope went unheeded. Seriously, the fact that Ratzinger wants to bring Europe back to the Church, and that he's the man to do it, shows how far he is from reality. Even in Germany his support among German Catholics was not particularly high (under 30%, but I can't find the article). His conservative dogma will be popular in growth areas like Africa, but surely they'd have preferred Arinze. I do not pretend to know enough about Latin America, given that they had multiple papabile and weren't actually too fussed about whether the next el Papa was from there.

On the other hand, maybe the Panzer Pope will blog.

Consider me impressed. The Wikipedia is up-to-date with Ratzi's new name within an hour of the election.

Speaking of Wiki's, I finally got the MLSS Wiki running yesterday. I'm not linking to it yet though, still testing. Tiki-wiki is great! Thanks to Gunnar Ratsch for doing the first one at Berder last year.