God’s Rottweiler
They’ve picked a new pope!
Today they picked a new pope!
It’s interesting, I almost already know more about this new pope than I ever really did about the old pope.
One newspaper report from before Cardinal Ratzenberger — I mean Ratzinger — became pope refers to him as “God’s Rottweiler.” Which is really cool. I sort of wish they could change the rules for the pope’s name, because it could also be cool to be able to call him “Pope Ratzinger.” That’s a really great name for a pope, don’t you think? Now, he gets to choose is pope name, and he picked Benedict XVI which isn’t bad. I like the XVI part. But they’re going to say “the sixteenth” instead of “XVI.” Which isn’t quite as rad.
When you look at this man’s life prior to being pope, there are some curious, and kind of funny things. Like the fact that he was in Hitler Youth. Of course it was the law that when you were a German 14 year old boy you had to be Hitler Youth. But then later, after he got to be Cardinal, he was also “prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition.” Yep, they changed the name a while back, but, Pope Ratz was the big boss of the Inquisition. Nobody expected that! My friend Matt said, “He’s like the pope Mel Brooks would make up for Vatican: The Musical!”
