Pope Benedict universally disliked by liberal and ex-Catholics.

“I am so .... out. I had gotten all excited about Catholicism again. I just loved all the people and ceremony of the last few weeks, all the hundreds of thousands in the square. I was out to lunch when I heard, 'It's the German.' You could just feel everyone groan.” Dominick Dunne

Famously the Rome correspondent of The Tablet spontaneously burst into tears on hearing of the election.

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Oh yes, "everyone groaned". Everyone meaning all those who want the Church to be Episcopalianism v. 2.0. The rest of us were quite pleased.
Personally, I disturbed the peace of a quiet Brussels street when I heard with cries of joy!

Te Deum!
Dan said…
The article is pretty much the typical blah blah garbage, I agree, however, in this particular remark: "Liberal Catholicism and liberal Islam have one thing in common: they have a very poor track record of attracting followers".