Houve um instante de felicidade no famoso discurso de 12 de Setembro de 2006, na Universidade de Regensburg (mil vezes mais interessante do que o da pseudo-ofensa ao Islão), em que quase se chegava a acreditar que poderíamos estar perante um novo Leão X:

"The university was also very proud of its two theological faculties. It was clear that, by inquiring about the reasonableness of faith, they too carried out a work which is necessarily part of the 'whole' of the universitas scientiarum, even if not everyone could share the faith which theologians seek to correlate with reason as a whole. This profound sense of coherence within the universe of reason was not troubled, even when it was once reported that a colleague had said there was something odd about our university: it had two faculties devoted to something that did not exist: God".

Foi bonito mas a ilusão durou pouco. 

(porém, sofreu muito, sofreu imenso, o pobrezinho...)