What is with this "Joseph Ratzinger" stuff?????? Its Pope Benedict....
This is the same thing that is being done to President Bush, by calling him "Bush" and calling clinton "President Clinton", clinton is FORMER President clinton...and President Bush is just that "President Bush"....
And Ratzinger is now "Pope Benedict"....thank you....
Well, he could retire, so that he´d be simply Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. But I doubt that His Holiness will do that. :-)
An excellent post! Every notice how the talking media head types refer to the president as "Mr. Bush" ?
Wait -- if he wrote something before becoming Pope then he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Benedict XVI didn't exist until he was elected.
Although I will admit that his detractors take a positive delight in calling him by his former name.