"I would say that both secular people and Catholics, seekers and believers, in the dense thicket of branches filled with many birds, must move toward each other with a new openness."

Such pretty, florid language is at odds with a man who went out of his way over a long period of time to silence any and all dissent from people with whom he disagreed. B16 was an absolutist and a dualist to the nth degree. Such attempts to gloss over his long track record of acting as the Vatican Gestapo (a technique he no doubt learned from his time spent with the Hitlerjunge) won't do. He was the power behind the throne in JPII's waning years when a "police state" approach to doctrine was the norm, an approach which continued throughout his own pontificate. I think it's fair to say that if any one person carried the water for dualism and opened the door for the marriage of convenience between like-minded conservative Catholics and evangelicals, it's B16. Perhaps it's time to come right out and say so.