This explains Pope Benedict's pontificate! His Wednesday catechesis was wonderful. You should definitely read the whole thing. He's beginning a series on each of the apostles. Today was Saint Peter and he said something that reveals how he sees his own role I think:

Peter wanted as Messiah a "divine man," who fulfilled people's expectations, imposing his force upon everyone: We also want the Lord to impose his force and transform the world immediately; yet Jesus presented himself as the "human God," who overturned the expectations of the multitude by following the path of humility and suffering. It is the great alternative, which we also must learn again: to favor our own expectations rejecting Jesus or to accept Jesus in the truth of his mission and lay aside all too human expectations.

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