4.21.2005

I almost want to go to Church

Thoughts on the conclave, and the new pope: "'It's wonderful to be in a group of 115 people, and you're all equals. You're all talking: Eminence this, Eminence that, first name this, first name that. And then suddenly, one of you is different,' said Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington. 'He's no longer one of you. He's the Holy Father, the successor to Peter and the Vicar of the Christ.' "