[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I am suspicious of creeping liberalism in the Church. We need the Church to maintain a hardline stance, perhaps an even harder stance than it does at the moment, not surrender to political correctness.

I agree with you totally. Some of the odds-on favorites (to be Pope) sound like socialists. I don't like it that Tettamanzi is "liberal when it comes to issues of social justice". And that: 'He called for "placing in common the welfare and the goods of all, material and immaterial, physical and spiritual" - prompting a blistering editorial last year from the newspaper Il Foglio blasting "the Communism of Tettamanzi."'

We do NOT need a Pope who is a Socialist/Communist. Good grief! Pope John Paul II fought AGAINST Communism. And here we have a Cardinal who wants to bring it back!

[Verginius Rufus]

I doubt they'll pick a socialist or communist. Anyone chosen is going to be better than some of the past popes (Benedict IX, Boniface VIII, Alexander VI, Leo X).