Yep, he is Catholic
Yahoo! News - Arch-Conservative German Elected Pope
It only took a few hours before the media turned on the new pope.
I commented earlier on how the media seemed to be campaigning for a liberal pope. Now they are stunned, that somebody was elected who actually believes what the Church teaches.
Go figure. I think it will be a long time before there is a liberal Episcopalian pope. It is impressive how the failure of fantasy suddently becomes news.