Know nothing about him, not unlike those on the blogs who are saying the typical stuff you'd expect. Really, talk about Catholics and the self-congratulating liberals all turn into Ian Paisleys and Bob Joneses.
I'm not expecting great changes, which you weren't going to get from this crop of cardinals. Not unless it turns out that he surprises them, perhaps himself, as well. Like that he's gone with Francis, one of the most justly loved saints. Like that he ditched so many of the trappings of office when he was cardinal. That could bode well. Especially like that he's not a Vatican insider hack. I'm especially glad he's not Dolan.
Anything better than worse than Ratzinger is on the way up. They say he's got some pastoral interest, which would be different. If he allowed married men to be ordained it would probably be about as radical as any probability. Will he? Who knows? They didn't expect John XXIII to change much. I expected great things from John Paul I.
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