Dear Michael P.,

Ratzinger argued in the week before he became Pope that "[w]e are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires."  You dismiss this by concluding that his language is "deeply confused" and  he is merely engaging in "attractive polemical posturing," but you have yet to tell us if and on what grounds you disagree with Ratzinger's assertion.