For what it's worth, xzins, I don't think Pope Benedict thinks that either. Please take the time to read this amazingly powerful Encyclical: It is addressed to Christians, not just to Catholics.
I just finished the encyclical and I strongly agree with you, betty boop. His spiritual emphasis is love and more specifically, love of neighbor.
Certainly I do not expect him to hedge on Scripture or tradition of the Catholic Church to accommodate other theologies; however, I do expect him to uproot any arrogance which might be lurking about in the church hierarchy - because that would not be loving.
I appreciated your posting of that link and read through it yesterday while lurking. I found that he began the treatise in the vein of C.S. Lewis--(
The Four Loves)--and went much further. I was actually sorry that he closed with Mary, except for this discernment (grant it to the reader, Lord): Mary as the personification or embodiment of the willing vessel. Any one of us could be that Mary; any such vessel will receive honor. Amen.
Wisdom, not Mary, is the Mother of all the Living, and she is proved by her offspring.