[Leoni]

The difference between Paul VI and John Paul II, was that Paul VI had a bad publicist. John XXII, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, ALL progressives. God chose them for some reason, I think to get the damage over and done with quicker. The Catholics that survive, will be only the hot Catholics, the lukewarm have fallen along with the cold. The people get they popes that they desire.

[RobbyS]

If you think that Benedict is a “progressive,” then you and I do not share the same meaning of the term. To me the progressive is someone for whom politics is the end and religion is the means, someone like Father Pfleger, or Mrs. Steinfels, the editor of Commonweal.