No welcoming arms

Cardinal Ratzinger is now the Pope, the leader of the Catholic Church. This only reinforces my decision to not be a participant of the Church I grew up in. This Pope is even more conservative than the last. I do not see how he will convince me to come back into the fold. But maybe that is their objective. To weed out all those who want change and debate. I am so disappointed at this selection. I was hoping that the Church would jump at this chance to change direction, to inject some new thinking and approaches. But, sadly, they have shown that they want to stay the course of authoritarianism and conservatism.