Still not finished, but I’m past the supposedly devastating paragraph 67, and I have to say, “Yeah, so what?” In the realm of ideals, an international political body such as the Pope imagines would hypothetically be a great thing, productive of much good.
The chance of such a thing’s happening in Real Life? Pope Benedict isn’t required to make it happen, or to not discuss it because it’s not expected by worldly reasoning. Just as I might wake up tomorrow and find all my family suddenly practicing the Golden Rule, the same is true of the whole world.