Pope Benedict XVI

Everyone and their mother is blogging about the election of the new Pope this afternoon. Although I'm not a Catholic, I must say that I was giddy this morning... anticipating the white smoke and church bells from Vatican City. What's more, I literally fell off my chair cheering as NBC live streaming coverage via the internet revealed that the world's new Pope was none other than Cardinal Ratzinger. Woo Hoo!

Why? Well, this protestant was quite excited when the Cardinal-come-Pope deliverd the following message in a homily delivered yesterday:

“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled
today as a fundamentalism,” he said Monday. “Whereas relativism, which is
letting oneself be tossed and ’swept along by every wind of teaching,’ looks
like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.”

“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires,” he warned.