Agreed. I had a good intuition about this Ratzinger fellow right up front; I hope he keeps up the good work.
Now if all the other Christian denominations will start to clean out their own "temples" ...
Other Christian denominations don't seem to have this one particular problem, at least not to this extent.
The liberal ones have, for the most part, totally, openly embraced sodomy, and are undergoing rapid demographic decay. They are overrun with homosexuals, but fortunately, a clericial sodomite can't molest children if there aren't any children in his congregation!
On the other hand, the hardcore moral conservative churches, which are growing, reject homosexuality as vehemently as the Vatican should have all along. Although the homos do sometimes infiltrate anyway; a few years ago, the youth pastor of the church I was then attending, was exposed as a boy molester. (He regularly preached about how we should "Kiss Dating Goodbye"....hmmmm....)
Does not the Catholic church believe in the infalibility of the Pope?
Seems the left wingers who CLAIM to be faithful have no wiggle room to dispute this decree. It is a religion not a San Francisco affirmative action program.