Yes, communities and churches.
When did Pope Benedict call another Christian “defective?”
Not their church or community, but them as persons?
True—the Pope didn’t call any particular person “defective”.
If he referred to a community of believers, then I see the same and worse has been said by other Confessions regarding the Catholic Church.
In other Confessions, Catholicism (read practicing Catholics) is considered not merely defective, but blasphemous and satanic and —well, all those other more-than-hyperbole descriptions by other Confessions. Would that it had only described us as merely “defective”!
True—the Pope didn’t call any particular person “defective”.
If he referred to a community of believers, then I see the same and worse has been said by other Confessions regarding the Catholic Church.
In other Confessions, Catholicism (read practicing Catholics) we are considered not merely defective, but blasphemous and satanic and —well, all those other more-than-hyperbole descriptions by other Confessions.
lol. Back-tracking again?
Your question was as follows:
When did Benedict identify, specifically or generally, any Christian as "defective?"
Now let's all spend six hours arguing whether by "generally" you meant as a member of a church or not.
As if that even matters.
Better yet, you play my part and do it for 12 hours. I trust you.