Can you spell "Ratzinger's blathering'?  The man ran from everything that he couldn't deal with his whole life.  He was good in speculating with theoretical concepts, but couldn't handle the Here and Now, Flesh and Blood issues that really effect people's lives.  Your concepts of "relativism" are just as inconsequential to people.  Relative to what?  Relative to what country?  Relative to what time-period?  Relative to what government? To what living situation? To what social condition?