[Buckeye McFrog]

One question -— has this been approved by Pope Benedict?

A very good question. The Vatican is populated with pompous, arrogant, self-righteous types who have been known to leak things to the world as dogma which have never gained top-level approval.

Historically their problem though has been that when this happens they circle the wagons to try and prevent embarrassment instead of just coming out and walking it back.

[rabidralph]

The real question is why they should they should be saying anything like this at all?