Habemus Papam

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

Ready the bonfires and the rack! The Grand Inquisitor is Pope.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope today, taking the name Benedict XVI, after the tolling of bells rang out over St. Peter's square and white smoke drifted from a Sistine Chapel chimney signaling that the cardinals meeting for a second day had chosen a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.