From his exalted position as the head of the largest church he has the possibility to use the powers granted to him for good, modernization and reconciliation. Instead he seems to be pulling, pushing and whipping his church back several decades or even centuries.
I accept the argument that his work is to preserve the faith as he sees it, but that cannot mean he has to alienate everyone else while doing so.
Ratzinger has enraged the Muslims by calling Islam "evil and inhumane". He has infuriated the Jews and the Europeans by revoking the excommunication of bishops who deny the Holocaust. He has angered the whole world by not allowing his subordinates to report cases of sexual abuse and pedophilia to the civilian authorities or to discipline priests involved in these crimes.
With all that on his conscience it means little that he cannot accept homosexuality as something natural or gay marriages.
The fact that he has accepted the use of condoms in all sexual relations - not only the sex industry workers - "as a lesser evil than passing HIV onto a partner" is the only good thing he seems to have done so far.
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