VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Broga|DATE|1360670102|CONTENT|@Graham:  I suspect that having packed the cardinals&#039; gang with reactionaries Ratzinger would be pleased with another reactionary.  But they just don&#039;t understand the real world.  They are now so reliant on millions of ignorant peasantry and semi literates elsewhere and assume these are their flock.   However, the intelligent and educated RCs have had enough and they are the ones who can use the media and the internet.  Ratzinger has always been prepared to excommunicate and censor those who disagree with his anachronistic teaching.  Those days have gone and even fantasists of the Murphy O&#039;Connor ilk can&#039;t hold on the them.  The old order has changed.

I hear that Ratzinger is going to spend his remaining years in prayer, contemplation and study.  That should be fun.  Unless, of course,he studies The God Delusion and the works of Christopher Hitchens and others.|EMAIL|denis.watkins1@virgin.net|IP-ADDRESS|82.31.11.124|MODERATIONFLAG|