Stereotyped reactions to Pope Benedict's election are pouring in from the usual suspects:
Reuters: "Arch-Conservative German Elected Pope"
The two writers are obviously stunned; otherwise, they wouldn't be writing nonsense like this:
He was expected to take a tough line against reformist trends in Europe and North America. In a Good Friday Mass this year he said: "How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him."
Apparently some people actually want moral and spiritual corruption! For these two Reuters dopes, they constitute "reformist trends"!
RC - you started a great headline.
"Reuters Dopes Win Donkey Like-a-like Contest"
Funny how Reuters associates "filth" with "reformist trends," an association the cardinal was almost certainly did not not make in his homily.
I called it "The stupidest news report about Catholicism EVER" when the press first reported this on Good Friday itself, under the title "Church leader rails at cloning 'arrogance'."
First of all, there is no Mass on Good Friday. Secondly, the new Pope's comments were part of the Stations of the Cross. They were from his reflections at each Station.
I think I need to get a prescription of valium or something to tide me over for the next few days or weeks. I guess our shining moment of having Catholicism done right by the press is over.