Pope "Snoop-Dog" Benedict XVI: Kickin it Real

Fire of Liberty

Here's Jonah Goldberg's take on the big dust-up in the MSM about the election of Benedict XVI in his latest syndicated column. In an earlier post, I noted how the media is aghast that the Pope would actually stick to Catholic doctrine. Jonah pretty much dissolves all of this concern with the following paragraphs:

As the Vatican's chief defender of theological doctrine, it's no surprise he's already being condemned as a "traditionalist" and a "hardliner." Of course, if some of the modernizers had their way, a new pontiff would be announced with the declaration, "We got pope!" Or maybe "The pizzy is in the hizzy!" Then Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake would bump and grind a bit before His Holiness rolled out in a newly pimped-out Pope-mobile.

But my guess is that won't be happening any time soon, and not just because Ratzinger's the new pope. Some believe there is a radical left wing in the Catholic Church that seeks to unravel the teachings of John Paul II, but this is an exaggeration of the Western - particularly, the American - press. The notion that you could find any cardinal eager to change church policy on abortion, for example, is simply a fantasy concocted by liberal journalists. Excepting, perhaps, the issue of distributing condoms in Africa, it's hard to think of a hot-button social issue that divides the church's leadership a fraction as much as American editorial pages seem to suggest.

Like I said, it's funny to see the media discover that the Pope will keep to Church teachings/doctrine and not become the "everything goes" Pope.