Serves them right.
Maybe if they read their Bibles a little more and lived by Gods instructions then they wouldnt be having these issues.
The guy's a Catholic.
B16's doctrinal "conservatism" surprises people?
They think they're going to get a new one who says, "Oh, BTW, Jesus didn't rise from the dead, to hell with poor people, feel free to crush and flush your babies, bomb whole cities, and buggers, bugger away"?!
And they want to call this "following your conscience"?
As Josef Cardinal Ratzinger once said, (and imagine this in all-caps, red font, and the biggest honkin' typeface):
"CONSCIENCE IS A STUDENT, NOT A TEACHER."
"Bene dictus" is a pun in Latin for "well spoken."
I like his style. And you know what else? I like his smile.