Hope it is Cardinal Ratzinger but he chooses "Pope Maximus." That would telegraph to the dissenters it is time to get out of Dodge. A good Roman martyr's name of the 2nd century would do wonders for the Church in oppressed countries.
Frank
You DO know Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth when he was a kid, don't you?
That should disqualify him entirely. No church needs an authoritarian with a Germanic name running it.
Its time for an American Pope and a Black one at that. Wilton Gregory would make a great Pope.
Pope Shaka I