Thanks very much for posting that info, I mean, 1969!! We're supposed to be worried about what a young theologian wrote in 1969?!
If you go to some of the links in the article, you'll see he's been publishing oppinions like this SINCE 1969 (when he was a young theologian of 42.) The most recent citations are well within his tenure as head of the CDF under Pope John Paul II.
I'm not "worried" about this. In fact, I am mildly hopeful about what the impact could be of disentangling the papal role from the ecclesially distinct role of Patriarch of the West. I am convinced that Jesus Christ founded the ministry of Peter as a providential and transmissible role; however patriarchs (like cardinals and all the curial and chancery posts) are a human invention.
I keep telling myself: there must be a difference between an apostolic heirarchy and a clerical bureaucracy...
Well, I mean 33 A.D...we're suppossed to be worried what a young carpenter said in 33 A.D.?? It alllll matters...