Theresa, I found this article on kath.net - I don't know if you've seen that one. Have a look.
www.kath.net/detail.php?id=21682
Thanks, Heike, for pointing it out - and thanks to Paul Badde (from whom I don't remember seeing any article on Benedict XVI this year, and who has written great things in the past) for his sensible treatment of the issue.
For those who do not read German, it is entitled 'Pope Benedict and the accusation of homophobia', but it is also a very good essay in which Badde describes how Westerners have managed to start changing concepts and definitions of human sex and gender, which is all of a piece with their rejection of the embryo or the fetus as a person.
I will translate as soon as I can, I hope before I get caught up in my Christmas Eve duties later today.
TERESA
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