Many people around the world have differences with Pope Benedict XVI. As a Presbyterian minister, I certainly do. But I have admired, among other attributes, his moral and intellectual courage: in his brief papacy, he has boldly and thoughtfully confronted the moral relativism of postmodern Western culture, the irrationality of Islam, and the sins of the Church, and he has consistently  demonstrated the notion that the group one leads is more important than one’s self, eminently manifested in his historic, principled decision to resign the papacy for the sake of the church. One has to be impressed.