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I didn't expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition

...but perhaps I should have: ABC News: Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany Is New Pope

How old is Pope Benedict XVI anyway?

I am correct that "the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" is just the old Inquisition re-branded, right?

So I guess he was probably acting as a kind of vice-Pope during JPII's infirm years anyway.

This can't be good.

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Jennifer:

First Bush, then Wolfowitz, now Ratzinger. What is the world coming to?

apc:

I am not sure that the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" is a rebranding, but is pretty close to the original, official name of the inquisition.

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