How much do you know about Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nicknamed "The Enforcer" or the "Panzerkardinal"? He's been head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Inquisition) for more than 20 years and he has been described as being even more zealous in the defense of orthodoxy than the pope himself.
The Australian has a profile of his life and beliefs:

He shares the view of the Polish Pope ... that only a united Catholic Church with absolute values can stand against totalitarianism and the temptations of Western materialism. The cardinal was shocked by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, when the old certainties gave way to intellectual and theological debate. ... The cardinal has also condemned Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions as offering false hope through "auto-erotic spirituality", accused the media of exaggerating the extent of the pedophilia scandals in the North American Church and encouraged a return to the Latin Mass.

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