Last time I checked, the Pope didn't appoint you his axe man on who can and who cannot make requests of him.
Since that's your attitude, why don't you sit this one out on the bench and he'll call you when he needs you, okay?
It's only schismatically minded neo-Catholics that want to impose false rules on the Holy Father about what he can and can't accept from Catholics that cite his own writings and make a request.
I seem to remember him stating that part of his ministry was going to be listening and not just talking. I can't believe you would put yourself against the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, Patriarch of the West, the Supreme Pontiff.
I for one, will heed the Holy Father's words. I agree with everything they stated and I'll put my name to a petition to send to B16.
"Requests"? How about demands! Because if those "requests" are not met, we all know that this will not be accepted graciously, don't we?
Here's the bottom line. If you and your buddies wish to criticise the Pope, I for one, will defend him. If you take it upon yourself to trash his work and ministry, there will be incoming.
In exactly the same way you leap to defend excommunicated nobodies like Bob Williamson and Barney Fellay, I'll defend the Holy Father.
You can make "requests" and everyone else can shut the hell up? I don't think so.