Benny boy

Number sixteen! Sixteen-ereeno!

There's a new Pope in town, and his name is Benedict. Benny, as I've taken to calling him, is a big improvement over JP2 when it comes to conservatism. For example,

He wrote a letter of advice to U.S. bishops on denying communion to politicians who support abortion rights, which some observers viewed as a slam at Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry. He publicly cautioned Europe against admitting Turkey to the European Union and wrote a letter to bishops around the world justifying that stand on the grounds that the continent is essentially Christian in nature...

...He once called homosexuality a tendency toward "intrinsic moral evil" and dismissed the uproar over priestly pedophilia in the United States as a "planned campaign" against the church.

And don't think you can disagree with this Pope and get away with it.

To succumb to the temptation of dissent, on the other hand, is to allow the "leaven of infidelity to the Holy Spirit" to start to work.

I hope that Benny gets to work on eliminating crushing the radical cardinals who had the gall to vote for someone else during the conclave. How is the Catholic Church supposed to function properly with all that dissent?

Ah, it's good to be Pope!