DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

The College of Cardinals in Rome has elected a new Pope. The criticisms are already coming in from the MSM about the "too conservative" nature of Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany. In fact, this excerpt from the Reuters article is typical...

Billed as the front-runner going into the conclave, Ratzinger, 78, was widely seen as a standard-bearer who would fall short of the required two-thirds majority and have to cede to a more conciliatory compromise figure.

But he sounded very much the candidate before the conclave on Monday, defending orthodox Catholicism and warning the other 114 cardinal electors against following godless modern trends.

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires," he declared at a pre-conclave Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

Papal experts expressed surprise at his election given the opposition that seemed to have formed before the conclave. "Somewhere a mending of fences must have been happened in the conclave," said Father Gerald Fogarty, history professor at the University of Virginia in the United States. "They probably think of this as a transitional papacy."

Imagine, a religious leader who believes that the doctrine of his church is ACTUALLY TRUE, and that other beliefs are ACTUALLY FALSE. Can the political and media elites of the West stand it? I guess they'll have to.