I'm starting to like this guy!

Via the Drudge Report.

POPE: Love 'is not lust'...

Love should not be confused with lust, says Pope
By Hilary Clarke in Rome
(Filed: 18/01/2006)

Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, expected in the next few days, warns believers not to confuse love with lust or degrade it "to mere sex".

Love is not lust. Love is not infatuation.

Whe he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Pope was known as a staunch traditionalist whose election as pontiff filled liberal Catholics with dismay. While the encyclical focuses on sex, it is likely to be a good deal less controversial than the Vatican's recent instruction banning homosexuals from the priesthood.

I'm all for filling liberals with dismay by holding high moral standards such as banning homosexuals from the priesthood!!