Why The Secular World Will Miss Pope Benedict When He is Gone

At the Anchoress has a very good piece up on Pope Benedict Birthday today. See Benedict at 82; The Last 20th Century Man

He is all that left. He is the last world leader that saw the horrors and mistakes of last Century up close and personal

In the United States Senate we have only Senators that can recall that time and on the Court we have only two. That is it from own quick survey of the U.S. poltical scene.