Ratzinger has also attacked rock music, calling it "the expression of basic passions."
The newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 78 on Saturday, will be expected to maintain John Paul II's deeply conservative line. He has railed against "greed" and "self-sufficiency" within the Roman Catholic Church and rejects any attempt to modernise.
He has rejected the ordination of women and marriage for priests, and opposes homosexuality and communism -- and he has never been afraid of upsetting political sensibilities.
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