[newsworthy]

a position he used to denounce contraception, gay marriage, women priests, homosexuality, abortion, Marxism, modernity, radical pastors and other religious faiths....

The preferred battleground of the secular minority. How heinous of Ratzinger to challenged the entrenched establishment because he believes in, ugh, religious absolutes.

[newsworthy]

"challenged" = "challenge"

[expatpat]

a position he used to denounce contraception, gay marriage, women priests, homosexuality, abortion, Marxism, modernity, radical pastors and other religious faiths....

It seems to me that this is exactly the same list the Imams denounce.