I agree with you, Osso. Ratzinger is a throwback to a much earlier era and he's trying to take the Church back into that era. More power to these nuns, say I.
I should probably thank him, he was the straw on the camel, made me see the elaborate constructions made out of fizzle as what I'd now think of as fawlty towers. Not the only one, but he was the straw.