There's an interesting diary on Kos about how htis is gonna go down like a cup of cold sick in the with the superstitious in US.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/10/163959/658

When the puffs of smoke rose up announcing that Cardinal Ratzinger would become the next pontiff, there were many on the right who rejoiced.  An an arch-conservative, the freshly-minted Benedict was seen as a figure who would be more forceful on social issues.  No namby-pamby forgiveness from this guy.  Here was a pope who would declare the holy war between Christianity and Islam that the conservatives wanted.  Here was a pope who would smite liberals and position the Catholic Church firmly in the conservative Christian club.  Here was a pope to make Dobson proud.  There's only one problem.  Benedict doesn't think they belong in the club.

Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.

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It restates key sections of a 2000 document the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, "Dominus Iesus," which set off a firestorm of criticism among Protestant and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the "means of salvation."

keep to the Fen Causeway