An e-mail:

The funny thing around my office yesterday was that the Catholics were dejected by Josef Ratzinger’s election, but we non-Catholic evangelicals were high-fiving each other (at least figuratively). What a bizarre state of affairs. Though we Lutherans reformed ourselves right out of the Catholic Church a few hundred years ago, I like seeing people stick to their religious guns. If you don’t believe it, don’t defend it, but if you believe it, defend it to the death.