[Skybird]

He's doing his job, and as a side-effect also meets public demands:

There IS a demand for more leadership and clear definition of religious basis instead of far-leading arbitrariness and indiscriminate tolerance (people want leadership), there IS a certain ammount of demand for holding traditional masses in Latin again (the rite is what gives people a home), and there IS a very urgent need for the Christian West to speak with less diverse voices, that partially are even lacking any clear orientation at all (as should be clear with regard to Islam's challenge of Europe). One must not be Catholic to see all this.

There must be reasons why Protestantism in the past years and decades has lost attraction much faster and to a wider degree, than Catholicism. And there must be a reason why people in germany's protestantic north are less at home in their religion and seem to live in a subjectively-felt more broken spiritual health, than people in the catholic south - a regional difference that travellers, and literats and artists time and again have described in their works, since generations. One can think of church and freedom, rulership, catholicism and the pope whatever one wants: but more people in the south seem to get more satisfaction from their way of catholic religion, than people in the middle and the north. Their world seem to be more "unhurt". Especially the rite and celebration in Catholicism is what makes it attractive for many. And the lack of this (the lack of clear structure, so to speak) is what has turned many people away from protestantism.

Let noone assume I say this because I'm a Catholic - I'm not, and will never be.