Hang on a minute here -- I think your statement needs a little deconstructing. Benedict (in the context of my remarks the necessary reference) is the Pope. Therefore, especially given that he seems to actually believe in that nonsense about Papal infallibility, he is talking about himself. As Cardinal Ratzinger there may have been some point in the distinction. Now he is Pope Benedict, it is his personal as well as institutional vanity which is impinged by any restriction on papal authority -- and it is very noticeable that much of what he says concentrates on the issue of the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome. Amazing really, nearly five centuries after Luther's defiance and he still has not got the point,
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Date: 2007-07-17 07:28 am (UTC)Hang on a minute here -- I think your statement needs a little deconstructing. Benedict (in the context of my remarks the necessary reference) is the Pope. Therefore, especially given that he seems to actually believe in that nonsense about Papal infallibility, he is talking about himself. As Cardinal Ratzinger there may have been some point in the distinction. Now he is Pope Benedict, it is his personal as well as institutional vanity which is impinged by any restriction on papal authority -- and it is very noticeable that much of what he says concentrates on the issue of the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome. Amazing really, nearly five centuries after Luther's defiance and he still has not got the point,
Graham