The Pendragon's Hall

And so the Catholic Church has a new head and not one to the liking of the Left. He won my support, just for that. Of course they will undoubtedly never forget to bring up his youthful participation in Hitler Youth, although even the ADL has said he "atoned" for that many times over by his attempts to bridge the gap between Jews and Catholics in Germany since the War. You'd think this would earn him plaudits from the tolerance crowd for attempting to reach out to those outside the faith but Jews are another group the status quo doesn't mind discriminating against, all their associations of the Right and Nazis to the contrary. No, the Left is not happy about this pick. They comfort themselves with his age (he just turned 78) and tell each other that the Church picked him as a sort of "stop-gap"--a temporary conservative filler while they prepare the Church for modernization with the next Pope, who will undoubtedly be needed soon. Then they can pick a pope they like better--one from Nigeria or Argentina or whatever country the Left thinks has better claim than Germany. Personally I'm kind of sympathetic to the idea that the next Pope should be from a non-Western country since they have all the Christians, but I think the Left will find itself sadly disillusioned if, after the death of Benedict XVI, a Nigerian pope is chosen. I think they will find the African Church, while being non-traditional in worship style and dynamism perhaps, is actually far more conservative than the western church in areas of morality. The reason being, African Christians are in a toe to toe struggle with Islam, and they hear repeatedly that the sins of the West make Christianity a decadent religion, so there is no way they are going to compromise with homosexuality or any such thing! I applaud the Catholic Church's decision for picking someone to lead their Church, not to water down Christianity even further.