i woke up this day with a new pope, and I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT TILL LUNCHTIME! ain't that a sham for the cnn girl? i slept quite early last night to get movin' in the "enrollment day" this morning (sayin it later), that my world was at on hold on everything else. i was still planning to post an entry about potential popes before i heard that the new head of the catholic church is Pope Benedict XVI or in ordinary-man terms, Joseph Ratzinger. oooh... a german pope. the choice was (i think) pretty obvious, because #1) he was the dean of the college of cardinals (the priests' university?! hmmm...), #2) he officiated the funeral mass of pope john paul II (correlated to #1), #3 the media kept hyping about him to be the highest, most eligible contender, and #4 he's old. 79, i think. he's pretty fine for me, he really just looks old... eyebags, black lines under the eyes and all. on one picture in a newspaper he looked really senile... but anyways, i hope he's a good one. if he's good on the doctrinal side, then he must also be good on practicing it. i'm not much of a catholic (though i like to be one), but sometimes it really does take a strong great leader to enforce & evoke emotions and beliefs... wonder what he'll do?

habemus papam! :)

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