Pope Watch 2005: Habemus Papam

Cardinal Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI. Thus endeth the Pope Watch 2005. Let's all wish the best for the new Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church and hope that the church continues the long, slow process of moving forward. May he be worthy of my particular favorite papal assignation: Servant of the Servants of God.

Also, let's all hope CNN's Wolf Blitzer loses his voice so someone even moderately knowledgable about the story can take over. I won't get into it all, but Wolf Blitzer appears to have not only avoided learning anything himself about the story he is reporting on (such primary ignorance is always the sign of a good jouranlist...idiot), but appears to have gone the extra mile and avoided even his own network's coverage over the last few weeks.