text: Agreed. Joseph Card. Ratzinger with the approval of  then Pope John Paul II wrote and promulgated something quite different.  This contemporary position MUST be repudiated. I see the point made so ably by Dennis Galon and agree with the difficult process of change within this beast.  The repudiation of the contemporary JPII/Ratzinger literalism of Genesis rationalizes and justifies diminution and exclusion of women.  Candy-appealing with cuddly phraseology simply insulates misogyny from confrontation with what it simple is.