So we have a new Pope...

"He could be a wedge rather than a unifier for the church," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, editor of the Jesuit weekly magazine America.

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Evelyn Strauch, a 54-year-old housewife from Ratzinger's home state of Bavaria, buried her head in her hands and wept.

"This can't be true," she said. "I had hoped so much that we would get a good pope who would do something for women. ... This is so terrible."

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In his memoirs, the policeman's son wrote of being enrolled in Hitler's Nazi youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941, when membership was compulsory. He says he was soon let out because of his studies for the priesthood.

In 1943, he was drafted into a Nazi anti-aircraft unit in Munich as a helper, a common fate for teenage boys too young to be soldiers. He wrote that he escaped recruitment in the dreaded Nazi SS because he said he was a priest in training.

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Then, just before the cardinals entered the conclave Monday morning, he made clear where he stands ideologically, using words that John Paul would surely have endorsed. He warned about tendencies that he considered dangers to the faith: sects and ideologies like Marxism, liberalism, atheism, agnosticism and relativism — the ideology that there are no absolute truths.

Benedict has denounced rock music, dismissed anyone who had tried to find "feminist" meanings in the Bible, and last year told American bishops it was appropriate to deny Communion to those who support abortion and euthanasia.

And some of the first things I hear is that he was a Nazi supporter, then it was just Hitler's youth with wehrmacht service, then it was deserting his wehrmacht unit and becoming a POW. Not to mention the fact that he is conservative, and opposes such things as reform to allow abortion, women priests, priests to marry, etc. Okay people, guess what, get over it. He's the new pope, and he's got his conviction to carry out.

Should your religion sway and blow around like so much wheat in a field, or should it be a moral rock, a solid foundation against which the tides of humanity crash against?

IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH YOUR RELIGION, FIND ONE THAT YOU ARE HAPPY WITH OR JUST DISAGREE AND MOVE ON!