I just read this article....
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idU...lBrandChannel=0
'Catholic schools must follow church teaching: Pope'

And found these two statements by Ratzinger:

and in the next paragraph...

Aren't these remarkably contradictory? Is the pope actually trying to be irrelevant?

No not irrelevant, profound. Banking on a structured science of teaching ignorance or dogma, belief often leaves objectivity weak. In other words if you are schooled by an institution that sees life one way without expanding beyond certain ideas, or principles of belief, relevance becomes subjective rather than objective.
The nature of objectivity is that vision is limited to containment of what is in the box according to authority.

To give an example. In the most recent sexual abuse complaints now entertained by the media certain cardinals who were accused of sexual abuse were moved to different positions within the church to avoid any further exposure to an already wounded congregation. When the church was petitioned for justice, the position taken is we know best what happened and what must be done, lets leave it at that.

Not unlike the recent LDS scandal regarding the impropriety of polygamy and sexual abuse, the authority within the system dictates truth to a closed system of beliefs rather than an objective system schooled in many beliefs or a system relative to the objectivity of belief systems.

In George Orwell's novel 1984, doublethink is defined as simultaneously holding two contradictory thoughts or beliefs. In that novel, the ability to doublethink was a highly regarded skill cultivated by the elite of the society. The Pope is merely providing us with an example to emulate. </satire>