Use this thread to provide links to Biographical information about Cardinal Josef Ratzinger the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI.
You may also continue to discuss issues that face the Catholic church and then cite any reference materail that would help us to understand how the new pope might influence or impact those issues.
Also just in case anyone is interested in dicussing the separate topic of how the pifferent Popes may be related to the Prophecies of Saint Malachi, we have a special thread open just to support that broad ranging discussion:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/index...howtopic=28350