Two popes for the price of one

Lyndsay Freer as spokesperson for the Catholic Church made Benedict XVI sound like a ‘holy chief executive’ as Chris Trotter says (From the Left, Feb 15), because in dealing with the secular media she used secular language. The first pope’s right-hand man, Paul, explains that a ‘natural person’ – someone who relies on their own resources rather than the Holy Spirit - won’t understand spiritual language, as Trotter himself demonstrates. He rightly sees Petrine authority as God’s authority, but can’t see that in exercising that authority, Benedict is exercising God’s will. Neither does he see that by Benedict’s commitment to full-time prayer for the world and for his successor, we’ll be getting two popes for the price of one.