The Times on the new Pope, Benedict XVI:
[The cardinal said] that he had “a certain hope” based on the choice of the name Benedict. Benedict XV, who appealed for peace during World War I, “was a man of peace and reconciliation,” Cardinal Danneels said. But, he said, “We have to see what’s in a name.”
I think that “Pope Benedict XVI” is a really rather boring choice of name. What if he’d really bucked tradition and gone with, say, “Pope Dirk Benedict I”?
Or just Pope Dirk?
i have to say with the history of the vatican and hitler appointing a pope with a nazi past is so insensitive it almost appears to be a purposeful slant against jews and anyone else murdered in the holocaust
just amazingly blind or not? on the part of the cardinals