What is from Ratzinger? The phrase "slimy underbelly of the ...mistreatment of women"? I doubt that. That is a phrase from the above article. You are conflating two things: the issue of civility, and your personal beliefs. What I am saying is that the title of that piece is offensive, it is not civil, and if it stands it severely affects  the  moral authority of  the staff at NCR  to make judgements about what is civil discourse.  It has become, as of now, a "do as I say not as I do" hypocrisy. If the NCR articles can use offensive language to make a point on the front page of their website then we cannot use strong language to make points in the little comments section? "Hey be civil in the comments, but don't expect us to be in our newspaper".