Pope Problem?

So I have heard all sorts of bad things about the new choice of pope...not that he's a terrible guy but that he is SUPER conservative...my host mom is NOT happy (she's divorced, she obviously doesn't follow hard-core Italian Catholism) and a bunch of teachers here are worried about what this pope could bring. It will be interesting to see, I suppose. Manuela said that women's rights and contraception are in danger...