What's So Terrible About Pope Ratz

Here it is, nutshelled:

"It's not enough to believe in Jesus Christ - we need someone to follow," Rocco Buttiglione, an Italian academic and politician who was friends with John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger, said in the huge crowd. "He has experienced modernity and he is convinced that modernity is a problem and Jesus Christ is the answer. It's not that Christianity has a problem and modernity is the answer."

Good. "We need someone to follow." Nicely premature surrender to a totalitarian conception of citizenship. "Modernity is a problem and Jesus Christ is the answer." Let's reserve comment on Jesus Christ, but if this is the official position of the Vatican (it's certainly consonant with Ratzinger's views), it amounts to a declaration of war.