re: #476 yma o hyd

Hiya, {reine}

Interesting that - but I see this differently.
It would have been a sad and terrible reflection on the Vatican if there had been a continuous silence.
That Pope Benedict has apologised, in no uncertain terms, and without the weasel words we’re used to hear from our politicians, is something which I find admirable.
I also think that we’d have to seek far and wide to find a corporation of comparable importance as the Vatican to come out with such a clear admission of mistakes made.

I don’t disagree with you. My concern is this: When the Pope speaks, even when he simply voices his own opinion, he is viewed as speaking for all Catholics. Ill-conceived statements reflect poorly on the Church as a whole. I hope this is the last time we have to have such a letter from him. I think he is a good man, trying to do right. But he does need to choose the best possible advisors, and ones who are savvy as regards up-to-date technology.