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Article Excerpt
In the immediate aftermath of the election of Benedict XVI, several readers wrote, not without a tinge of schadenfreude, to remind me that in May 2002 I wrote a column predicting that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would not be elected pope. Others pointed out that in my "Top 20" list posted on NCR's Web site, Ratzinger's name did not appear.
So, let me acknowledge publicly that I did not predict this.
In my defense, however, I would note that in the revised 2004 edition of my book Conclave, I listed Ratzinger among the candidates to watch. Moreover, in an April 14 piece for the NCR Web site, four days before the opening of the conclave, I wrote the following: "The push for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the pope's doctrinal czar for 24 years and the dean of the College of Cardinals, is...
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