In all the talk about Dean V. Ratzinger, I’m surprised I’m the first to point this out. On Friday, Dean declared: “The issue is: Are we going to live in a theocracy where the highest powers tell us what to do? Or are we going to be allowed to consult our own high powers when we make very difficult decisions?”

And yesterday the former Cardinal Ratzinger decried a “dictatorship of relativism” which “does not recognize anything as absolute and leaves as the ultimate measure only the measure of each one and his desires.”

It seems to me that Dean and Ratzinger aren’t merely dissimilar, they’re polar opposites.