Habemus papam - look, he's German ;-)

Well, you've heard it all yaself, I think - between six and seven o'clock this evening the new pope was revealed - Kardinal Joseph Ratzinger is the new pope Benedikt XVI. So, from a historical point of view the former - more or less secret - theological leader of the Vatican is now his official leader in every aspect. I was pretty impressed with the entertainment qualities and fine humour of Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez who announced the official phrase to be spoken in a salutation in seven or eight languages. Estévez seems to be a big football fan, because he started his announcement in the same way as the speaker in a stadium - starting with the forename, having a long break in which indeed the first fans made a short attempt to shout the surname and then the surname. Wow! What kind of media reference world do we live in?!
In fact I am pretty content with their choice even though I didn't think of this option any more during the last days - wasn't it way too obvious??? At least I won against my flat mate, who was favouring "a conservative Italian, for sure" whether I was replying "whether Ratzinger or any one from South America or Africa". But the funniest things are the relations - I've heard rumours that the infamous head of the EBM band :Wumpscut, Rudi Ratzinger, is the nephew of this new pope. And man, that is outstandingly ironic.

The former professor of catholic theology and enfant terrible, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, was already interviewed about her former fellow student in an interview linked here some days ago. The phrase about him states:
"Ratzinger is still a riddle to me. He is of high intelligence and was a star among us students back then. We translated latin phrases together. But he always had this strange aura of a cardinal: of high intelligence but with complete absent of any erotic. By the way, it was not him who removed me from university. That's beyond his style and intelligence. I was blocked by the primitive theological means of the local German bishops."