I agree with both of you, I coming from a protestant background (please don't burn me at the stake for hericy! oh, wait, the reformation is over... ) think that the church needs to adapt and fall in line with what the world is doing today, but without compramising the beliefs on which it was built, and laid out in the Bible. This is where a Conserivitive comes into play, someone who will bring the church (any church, Roman Catholic, Reformed, Presbyertian, United, Methodist, Lutheren....you get the picture) into the 21st century and beyond.

But then again according to the Malachy Prophecies this is the second to last pope. And he will lead the church through the first part of the Tribulation (end times) only to be replaced by Pope Peter the Roman, and he will be the anti-christ/satan or the mouth piece of the anti-christ. So far these prophecies are correct, but I will leave the future to God, and trust in his plan for the world and myself.