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I used to date girls from an all-girls Catholic HS. Does that count?

I don't know Joe Ratzinger, so I can't be sure whether he'd do a better job. I figure he's got lots of management experience. That can't hurt. But odds are he'd be at a serious watts-in-the-bulb disadvantage. On the other hand, he'd probably be come out way ahead in the number of languages spoken, and beat me by a mile on Church History. But translators are cheap, the Vatican probably has lots of good ones, and I'm a quick study and would probably dominate on analytical ability so if I had a good research staff I'd be comfortable finding out what I need to know about Church history when I need to know it, and most importantly, knowing what questions to ask to calibrate the quality and relevance of the information I'm being fed.

So I guess it depends on which skill set would be more important -- management experience running an organization the size of the Vatican, foreign languages, being up to snuff on Church history, sheer number of watts in the bulb, ability to do uptake -- knowing what questions to ask and how to organize massive amounts of information and distill it down to its essence, analytical ability, legal experience, etc etc.

Then there are differences in temperment. I'm probably much more reflective, intellectually honest, etc. He's probably more of a stickler for details. And I'd have no sympathy for priests making ten year old boys perform sex acts whereas he might worry, at least a bit, about the "scandal to the leity" if the guy's exposed in black and white.

I'm not planning on submitting a resume. I don't want the job. But since you asked for an objective assessment, there you go.