"It is the Light that the darkness shall never overcome."

This would be funny if it was not so malicious. It is from today's New York Times,

"Pope Benedict well-known stands include the assertion that Catholicism is "true" and other religions are "deficient";

So this is why Benedict will make a bad pope, because he actually believes this stuff? He has spent his whole life in the service of a religion that church which he thinks is better than all the rest! How dare he! Can you imagine? How hypocritical, to actually practice and believe what one teaches!

I would like to point out again that quote is straight out of the Times, I did not embellish it one bit. Our new pope can take solace in the fact that the last beatitude is (more or less) Blessed are you when they (the NY Times, Cokie Roberts, Hans Kung, Fr. McBrian, et al.) mock, scorn, and utter every falsehood about you: rejoice and be glad.

Gideon et spec