[HitmanLV]

The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI rankled those who advocate married priests, a bigger role for women within the church and softening its policy on homosexuality, birth control, euthanasia and abortion.

I'm still waiting for the companion article about the Catholics who applaud Ratzinger's positions! :-)

[BobS]

"I'm still waiting for the companion article about the Catholics who applaud Ratzinger's positions! :-)

I have a budding idea for a companion article:

This Pope won't serve condoms for Holy Communion to a bunch of Gays and Lesbians.

[Verginius Rufus]

I was amazed that Jim Lehrer on PBS had some experts on his program tonight who were very supportive of Pope Benedict XVI...one was a priest at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. On the other hand, Morton Kondracke was an embarrassment on Brit's program...very negative.

[GatorGirl]

I hope you're not holding your breath while you wait! ;-)

The media wants to paint the entire Catholic Church in America as a bunch of liberal CINOs. If you polled only regular churchgoers instead of those who call themselves Catholic and show up only on Christmas and Easter, I'd suspect that the percentages would be quite different!