text: Of course the Vatican won't reply because, from a dogmatic theological point of view, there is no defending AL."Remain objective", "Slap in the face"? Was the Holy Father "objective" in comparing the heterodoxy of AL with the Church's 2000 years of dogmatic teaching on the matter; did he not "slap" in the face his predecessors who have repeatedly condemned what is at least implied in AL,including strong, traditional pronouncements on the points of contention from his two immediate predecessors? Msgr. Pinto then has the temerity to suggest that the four Cardinals are being disloyal to the pope. The hypocrisy here is staggering in that it is the pope who is being disloyal to the Church's perennial Magisterium, and it is that magisterium to which the Cardinals are bound, particularly where Christ's Vicar strays from it. No wonder the Vatican II crowd removed the requirement that a newly elected Supreme Roman Pontiff takethe Oath Against Modernism.