Gwen Ifill's a she. :-)
[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A942-2005Apr19?language=printer|Washington Post]:
In his sermon Monday in St. Peter's, Ratzinger defended a conservative approach to faith.
"To have a clear faith according to the church's creed is today often labeled fundamentalism," he said, "while relativism, letting ourselves be carried away by any wind of doctrine, appears as the only appropriate attitude for the today's times. A dictatorship of relativism is established that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure."
The church has been shaken by "numerous ideological currents," Ratzinger said. "The boat has been unanchored by these waves, thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and on and on.
"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty," he concluded.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.