There's a New Pope in Town, Baby!

Coming this spring! The movie event of biblical porportions...

Joseph Ratzinger is...

Bennedict XVI!

Anyway.

I'm very disappointed about Ratzinger getting Pope.

My problem with this papal choice is not really in the fact that he's more conservative (a conservative Catholic in the Vatican? No...), but that he represents an out-dated idea of the Catholic Church.

Now, I'm not Catholic, but I still think the importance of the Pope (and who the Pope is) should not be understated. An African or Latin American Pope would have made more sense demographically, not to mention he would be better equipped to deal with the challenges of the Third World through a Catholic lens, which will be possible the most relevant task for this Pope, and which is something Ratzinger has little first hand experience with.