Not What They Had In Mind

A roundup of comment on the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI in the
Weekly Standard gives us a flavor of fashionable opinion on the new pontiff.
There’s no doubt about it. People don’t like their ox being gored, and a traditional Catholic Church
is a threat to their peacefully grazing cattle. But one man’s peacefully grazing ox is another man’s
rampaging bull. For the Church and its traditionalist allies think that their ox is sorely
threatened by the rampaging progressivist bull.