And all of this is not an opinion, nor a sensibility, nor an option: it is a necessity.

We are accused of not loving the Pope. We are accused of not respecting him. But it is precisely because we love the Pope, sincerely, as the Vicar of Christ, as the head of the Church, that we do not wish to continue seeing the Pope humiliated alongside false shepherds, representatives of false religions. How many times have we seen this over all these years?

It is because we love the Vicar of Christ that we no longer want this humiliation for the Pope, a humiliation that falls upon the entire Church, treated on an equal footing with false religions.