The best place to go for links to articles about Pope Benedict is here, the "Papa Ratzinger Forum" where not only English-language articles are posted, but translations of other pieces, as well.

Notable over the weekend were those emanating from the Brits – sniping, snide and mostly missing the point. It’s one thing to disagree with Benedict – go read the Traditionalist forums, or on the other hand, the Huffington Post – to get a taste of that – but what these fellows do – Peter Stanford at the Observer and Cornwell’s in the Times UK is to basically warn that surely the Rottweiler has not lost his bite, it’s soon to evince itself, and to spend many hundreds of words attempting to squeeze Benedict into their preconceptions and ideological expectations. It is simply beyond them to understand how a Pope, firmly and thorougly committed to Christ, could look at the world as it is and want his first and foundational message to be "God is love."

Their loss.

Oddly enough, both stories refer to him as the "IPod Pope" in the headlines. Good job.

One of the more interesting articles linked in the forum is, amazingly enough, from the Italian Vanity Fair. A taste:

At a time when, alas!, preaching seems to have been reduced to an obsessive repetition of moral norms, ranging from commonplaces about solidarity to instructions on how to behave in bed, Joseph Ratzinger, in those 5 speeches, managed to shake us up, reminding us that Christianity is not an ethic but the celebration of an event: that God be came man, died for us and rose again, and that even for us, life does not end here. All the rest – including moral behavior – are a consequence of that fact, not premises.

If you can, go back and reread those speeches and you will see how Ratzinger, I repeat this, keeps showing us, above all, the beauty of Christianity. Even his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, follows that orientation: God is not a policeman, God is love. “He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

Anything but a stick-rapping moralist, Ratzinger even exalts all the dignity of erotic love, but he also makes it clear that eros without agape (the love in which one gives oneself to the other) risks being nothing but self-love, pure satisfaction of one’s own desires.

Why do I like Benedict XVI’s manner of speaking? Because he is not dogmatic. Rather, he rationalizes moral indications. He doesn’t simply say: do this! He explains, he talks to the modern mind, which is rational by training.