Regarding Michael Ledeen’s comment on the Pope’s questioning of God as to where He was when the innocent were being slaughtered at the death camps, and why He did not intervene against this evil — “I think the question is more properly directed at man rather than the Almighty, who gave us the ability to distinguish between good and evil and the obligation to make our own choices” says Michael, and I do not argue his point — it’s worth noting another direct questioning of the Almighty: “Father, why have you abandoned me?” If Christ, omniscient, may question God, surely so too may the mere mortal Benedict. Is it not natural for children (which includes the sons and daughters of God), even as adults, to ask, in times of despair, where their parents — their protectors — are? Of course, what is more important than the asking of the question is the answer, which defines the relationship between God and Man, and indeed all morality.