"Has not our modern world created its own idols?" Benedict said in his homily, and wondered aloud whether people have "imitated, perhaps inadvertently, the pagans of antiquity?"

"This is a question that all people, if they are honest with themselves, cannot help but ask," the pontiff said.

No, Popey-baby, I’m afraid it wasn’t inadvertent at all and the fact that you would insult pagans this way kind of shows how horrifyingly out of the loop you are . . .

www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/13/pope.france.ap/index.html