And "We" have a new Pope!

As everyone already knows we have a new Pope! He is a Germany man, Joseph Ratzinger!

Though I must admit I know very little about him, ya know not being Cathloic my self... So here is what I found at http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/ratzinger.hometown.ap/index.html

TRAUNSTEIN, Germany (AP) -- Students at the seminary where Joseph Ratzinger studied for the priesthood as a teenager in the 1940s erupted in cheers Tuesday at the news that their townsman had become the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Students at St. Michael's seminary in Traunstein pumped their hands in the air, and the schools director was in tears.
"I'm completely overwhelmed. I can't fathom what happened," said the Rev. Thomas Frauenlob.
"He eats with us. I can't grasp it. I know he's going to do a really good job."
The class then joyfully ran together into church for Mass.
"It's fantastic that it's Cardinal Ratzinger. I met him when he was here before and I found him really nice," said Lorenz Gradl, 16, who was confirmed by Ratzinger in 2003.
Ratzinger was born in the town of Marktl Am Inn, but the family moved often because of his father's job as a police office, and he wrote in his memoirs that he considered Traunstein his hometown.
He visits the town often, and stays in an apartment at the seminary.
People in Traunstein say they've seen Ratzinger's softer side, despite his reputation as a theological hard-liner.
Frauenlob said he has come home to confirm teenagers and had spent time ministering to the old and sick.
Traunstein was where Ratzinger returned after deserting the German army in 1945, and it was the place where he was taken prisoner by U.S. troops.
He was released from a U.S. POW camp in June of that year and hitched a ride home on a milk truck.

Then I also saw http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/pope.catholic.react/

Jurandir Arauj, of the National Conference of Bishops Afro-Brazilian Section told Reuters: "It seems that he is too conservative. Hopefully the Holy Spirit can help him change. We expected a person like John Paul. Somebody who could give the Church alternatives ... open the Church to the world, look more at reality."

Ok, it may just be me, but I feel that the more conservative the leaders are the better. We, the people of the world, have become too liberal! But that is just my opnion.