[Arthur McGowan]

This Pope has yet to demonstrate to me that he’s a very deep thinker. Certainly he hasn’t thought deeply about this issue.

[Mrs. Don-o]

He doesn't speak with theological precision like Pope Benedict did, and that sows a lot of unnecessary confusion. (e.g. in this latest "interview in the airplane" episode, he specifically referenced: "as the Catechism says" --- as if the press would pick that up as an interpretive clue!!)

It's going to get increasingly tiresome, having to follow after and explain "what he really meant to say."

Even Pope Benedict wasn't sufficiently wary of the press, as in the incident where he said that an AIDS-infected homosexual prostitute who decided to use a condom out of concern for others' well-being might be said to be taking a step in the right direction.