Wow! Amazing how much nonsense and garbage is in the papers this morning. It's almost like Bush has been elected again.
Most of the columns and editorials are really only nonsensical because they wanted a public campaign and public vote and instead had to make do with pre-election rumors and post-election silence.
Therefore, all they have are the ridiculous references to the Pope's "Hitler Youth" experiences. An example of the garbage is in the editorial from today's Guardian. "[Ratzinger] is a name that will clamp the cold hand of foreboding round the hearts of all who care about the developing world". What? I think the Guardian has taken that 'Panzer Cardinal' stuff to heart and figures that Benedict XVI is going to roll over Africa.
According to this article, Nigerian Catholics are jubilant. Not everyone in the "developing world" is so fearful.
Here's a good article by David Quinn on his meeting with Cardinal Ratzinger in the mid 1990s.
