“People have to understand that nowadays the pope is obliged to make so many speeches and send so many messages that he needs a lot of collaborators to prepare them,” Cardinal Cottier said. “The theologian of the papal household is charged with reading all these texts and give(s) a theological opinion on them.”
I just helped build a 1000 page website. I would research an issue or topic and tell the journalists I was working with what I wanted after giving them the necessary research material.
After they had finished the article I would then have to read through their work carefully to make sure they had got it right before posting it on the website (BTW www.life.org.nz)). Mostly they had got it right, but sometimes something was a bit ‘wrong.’
It sounds like BXVI works pretty much that way. Tells them what he wants, they prepare the speeches etc, and his theologian checks it over before handing it over for the pope to read. Saves time for an extremely busy man.
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