Pope Benedict XVI weblogs!
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Pope Benedict XVI is unsurprisingly a popular topic in weblogs these days (like this one).
There are already a clutch of weblogs devoted to the new pontiff. Pick of the bunch is popebenedict16, edited by the Catholic writer Michael S Rose. It offered links to scores of articles about the new pope. Reader comments on the site have yet to scale the heights, however. A sample post: "Long Live Benedict XVI!! Down with heresy!!!"
But then:
Andrew Sullivan was of similar mind on his Daily Dish weblog. It was an "insular and regressive choice", said Sullivan. It quashed hopes of the church revising its "peripheral doctrines on human sexuality or even how to run the church (celibacy, women priests, etc)." Instead, things were likely to get worse: "They simply could not have picked a more extreme candidate."