Rod Dreher, in an e-mail, makes an important encouraging point:

There are so very many reasons to be thrilled by this selection, but one I’ll mention here: I do believe Ratzinger — sorry, Pope Benedict — understands deeply the crisis of sexual abuse in the Church. His office is the one that has been handling the flood of sewage coming from America. On Good Friday, he begged God’s forgiveness for the “filth” in the Church — this is what he was talking about. I think we will now see the kind of disciplinary action from Rome that so many of us have been hoping and praying for.