I'm afraid you haven't gotten the news. As reported elsewhere on this thread, Cardinal Ratzinger actually had breakfast with Cardinal Mahony and some Third World cardinals on the day he was elected Beendict XVI. Can't you see--they had BREAKFAST! Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day for conspiracies. The fix is in: Benedict is a Mahony stooge.
LMAO
Many many thanks for the 'behind the scenes' in Rome. A week had not yet gone by and our new Pope was dining with his 'chosen ones'. Fr. Heidt, God bless him didn't have enough of red in his clerical attire. The next ambitious author can have a ball with the plot that will surely develop in Rome. Make "The Da Vinci Code" pale in comparison. Not to worry...."the XVI" is in His Chair and it's business as usual.