Pope Francis needs to be more circumspect?  Would you have said that of JP II or Benedict?  There were times that they weren't very circumspect.  Benedict cannot think on his feet at all.  He couldn't respond to questions without having to have 'time' to do so.  He was a failure as a professor at Tubingen University[one of the most creative and important centers of Catholic thought---a position which he received because of the kindness of Hans Kung] during the late '60's and early '70's because he couldn't deal with theological students asking him questions during class.  He left to help form Regensburg Seminary---where students only raised their hands in class to ask the professor to please repeat what they just stated---so that even punctuation marks could be recorded accurately.


BTW----Cardinal Muller of the CDF is a graduate of Regensburg and Cardinal Walter Kasper is a graduate of Tubingen.