By the time Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany assumed his new papal moniker on Tuesday, it was already too late for the Vatican to buy the corresponding dot-com Web address.
That's because a St. Augustine, Fla. man, Rogers Cadenhead, registered the address BenedictXVI.com on April 1, hoping that would be the name of John Paul II's successor. To cover his bases, Cadenhead, 38, also registered ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com, PaulVII.com, and PiusXIII.com.
Read Rogers Cadenhead's blog, especially where he talks about the whole thing.
So the first of the stars of the old media has admitted it. Or is he just a bitter old man with no show lashing out at the industry that (pretty much) turned its back on him?..