OctopusPaulII, successor to the tentacled tipsterthat wowed the world with his uncannyknack of correctlypredictingWorld Cupfootball games, was unveiledWednesdayinGermany.
Despite becoming the first pope to use Twitter, Pope Benedict never garnered the media savvy of his predecessor John Paul II, a former actor with a knack for defusing controversy with one liners.
Crowds accustomed to a quarter-century of superstar John Paul II, grew to embrace the soft-spoken, scholarly Benedict, who had an uncanny knack for being able to absorb different points of view and pull them together in a coherent whole.