A Blast from the Past

I was browsing in my LJ archive, and ran across the following words, which I wrote in a comment on one of my posts, on April 19, 2005.

I just don't think Ratz will last very long, and his successor will be from the Third World. Which will mean changes, but not necessarily foreseeable ones. (There are reports that the Latin American cardinals chose to bide their time, rather than pushing one of their own through - which they might well have been able to do.)

:is smug: