I guess YOUR god isn't as powerful as you claim

This guy, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, is the offspring of small piece of bread and the discharge of an infected bedsore.

German Cardinal Becomes Pope

From the article linked above and a few comments...

“As head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger disciplined dissidents”
So he helped squash anyone that spoke out against the Church because of how they handled the child molesting priests?

“...suggesting that Turkey's bid for membership in the European Union may be incompatible with European culture.
”What kind of idiot thinks that being a member of the EU (a financial collective) would require that your culture be exactly like one of the current members?

"The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers," he said.
Ummm isn’t Your god 'All Powerful'? If so how can you make such an idiotic statement?

“...He followed it up with a fiery speech to the cardinals ... warning about tendencies that he considered dangers to the faith: ideologies like relativism.”
Let’s see... Let’s start with a definition of Relativism (The view that truth is relative and not absolute. Truth varies from people to people, time to time and there are no absolutes) Gee this sounds just like how the church handles its problems when it comes to crimes it has committed, from the Crusades to the sex scandals.

"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as a fundamentalism," he said.
Which it is. The Church is just a bunch of guys sitting around spending other people's money. A religion is supposed to come from a belief in a deity. If all it takes to make a religion is a group of useless old men to make a few declarations the why wasn't David Koresh allowed to prosper?

“In his memoirs, he wrote of being enrolled in Hitler's Nazi youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941, when membership was compulsory. He says he was soon let out because of his studies for the priesthood.
Two years later, he was drafted into a Nazi anti-aircraft unit as a helper, a common fate for teenage boys too young to be soldiers. Enrolled as a soldier at 18, in the last months of the war, he barely finished basic training. “
EXCUSE ME! What kind of conviction in his faith is he showing here? This is the type of man you want leading the most powerfull and corrupt organization in the world? If he had any belief in the god that he 'works' for he would have refused this 'draft' and left his fate up to his god.

‘"We are certain that he will continue on the path of reconciliation between Christians and Jews that John Paul II began," said Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's main Jewish organization.’
You expect this from a man that "...urged caution in pursuing relations with other Christian denominations."
How can a man be expected to understand or reconcile anything with Jews or Muslims when he doesn't even want to speak to any of the other religions that are close to his own?

... and lastly he chose the name Benedict, which comes from the Latin for "blessing". He is not going to be a blessing to the Church or the people that follow this foolish religion. All he is doing here is trying to put a spin on the fact that he is an archaic, close-minded, overbearing, simpleton that doesn't deserve the power he has.

Note: Even though I think that all religions are foolish I do not desire to see anyone suffer under the kind of tyranny that this man will bring.