Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected 26th Pope
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected the 265th pontiff today by the College of Cardinals.
He was announced as tens of thousands of people cheered in St. Peter’s Square. Ratzinger has chosen the name Benedict XVI, the Vatican announced.
The announcement came shortly after white smoke rose from the Vatican chimney and bells rang to announce that a new pope had been selected.
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger expressed serious reservations about the sixth Harry Potter book. In a letter dated March 7, 2003 Cardinal Ratzinger thanked Kuby for her “instructive” book Harry Potter – gut oder böse (Harry Potter- good or evil?), in which Kuby says the Potter books corrupt the hearts of the young, preventing them from developing a properly ordered sense of good and evil, thus harming their relationship with God while that relationship is still in its infancy. I disagree. I do not think that the sixth Harry Potter book is not a good example.