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I really like Ratzinger and know that he will continue to support John Paul II's culture of life. I think he will do an excellent job as Pontiff, as he has in all his other endeavors his entire life.

That being said, I hope that the next Pope is from Latin America. As the new "base" of the world's Catholic community, it would do much good to have a Pope from the region.

Furthermore, with the revival of Castro’s communist drivel in the region by Hugo Chavez, and all the risks that are posed by him and his plans for a “Bolivarian revolution,” we need a Pope who will continue to combat the evils of communism and socialism, having seen the adverse effects and externalities first hand.

For this reason, I feel that Cuba’s Ortega would make an excellent choice for the next Pontiff, as he has been battling Castro for years…

That being said, perhaps a German Pope can help affect a positive change in Europe, where religion (among other things) is utterly failing among native Europeans. This is dangerous, as at the same time the lack of religion and traditional values has contributed to the destruction of nuclear families and atrocious birth rates.

Europeans who have abandoned traditionalist values, the church, and marriage, and who have turned rather towards the culture of death, which is represented by sexual promiscuity, drugs, abortion, and the hedonistic pursuit of instant and self gratification, have managed to sink their birth rates to such an abysmally low level that their cultures (and numerical superiority) is being overtaken by the influx of immigrants, who do not assimilate into German culture.

As these immigrants, mainly Muslims from Turkey, come into Germany and have HUGE birthrates, the entire future of a Christian western Europe swings in the balance, so perhaps a German Pope is just what we need for the time being.