Benedict XVI: a teacher for the whole world
It was not until I got to the Jesuit-run Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, that I realized just how deeply some Catholics disliked him. I remember sitting in a class as one of my classmates, a Catholic priest, went on for a good ten minutes about the scourge that was Pope Benedict XVI. He also threw in a choice dig about the oppressive nature of clerical dress. By then I had been ordained in the Episcopal Church; I was wearing my collar because when I left parish ministry for doctoral work my bishop said “You are there for the sake and service of the Church, so you need to dress like it.”
