I'm sorry, Joe: I am not trying to be rude or contentious just for the sake of it~~

But there is something faintly ludicrous in your constant iteration that, because you and your sophisticated Sacramento friends

(+ some urban immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, who have separated themselves from just those of their compatriots as are in question here, just by that get-up-&-go which has brought them to US, and who know as much about those compatriots way out in the bush as you do & I do)

have got the measure of the 'arseholes' in the hierarchy, and decline to accept unquestioningly all their pronouncements, or all the Church's traditional teachings, and have contumely for certain named archbishops~~

why then, everything is OK with Catholicism worldwide, wherever and whatever~~

so that's all right then.

It isn't all right, Joe. Sorry.

~M~

So Benedict is your 'servant', is he? Just try getting him to lay out your clothes & polish your shoes next time you go out.