You might be forgiven for assuming that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, upon becoming pope, took the name of "Hard-line" rather than "Benedict XVI.".(The Week)(Brief Article)

You might be forgiven for assuming that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, upon becoming pope, took the name of "Hard-line" rather than "Benedict XVI." It is probably best to ignore the media orthodoxy forming around him rather than to refute it. Ratzinger is, like John Paul II, an intellectual, and like John Paul he was involved in the reforms of Vatican II. He is reputed to be more interested in the administrative tasks of the papacy than his predecessor. But he is no grasper of power: He asked John Paul repeatedly to be allowed to ...