And on the pope himself: Benedict XVI is MY Pope. Another interesting reaction from a (fairly) young person, recent convert, and recently ordained priest: Fr. Matthew Venuti, my so-to-speak parish priest in the Ordinariate. You may have noticed that the blog Father Father appeared on my sidebar recently. The main reason I haven't mentioned it is that I'm annoyed by the fact that I can't get that list to show up in alphabetic order like I want it to. 

Anyway, this ties in interestingly with some of the discussion on the resignation post, in particular the surprise some of us expressed that Benedict seems at least as popular with young people as John Paul II was.