The guantlet dropped again

Just in case you somehow missed it, Pope Benedict XVI again threw down the gauntlet is a sort of challenge to the growing trend toward relativism:

In the light of the elections that took place last year in several countries, it should be emphasized that democracy is called to take into account the aspirations of the citizens as a whole, and to promote increasing respect for all the components of society, according to the principles of solidarity, subsidiarity and justice. Yet the practice of democracy must be allowed to turn into the dictatorship of relativism, by proposing anthropological models incompatible with the nature and dignity of the human person.

You may recall the first time he dropped the gauntlet. It doesn’t seem as though anybody wants to pick it up…