2010 besuchte Papst Benedikt England. Begrüßt wurde er von Richard Dawkins. Dawkins
„Joseph Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity. He is an enemy of children, whose bodies he has allowed to be raped and whose minds he has encouraged to be infected with guilt. It is embarrassingly clear, that the church is less concerned with saving their bodies from rapists, than saving priestly souls from hell. And at most concerned with the long term reputation of the church itself.
He is an enemy of gay people, bestowing on them the sort bigotry that the church used to reserve for Jews before 1962.
He is an enemy of women, barring them from the priesthood, as though a penis were an essential tool for fulfilling pastoral duties.
He is an enemy of truth, promoting bare face lies about condoms not protecting against AIDS, especially in Africa.
He is an enemy of the poorest people on the planet, condemning them to inflated families that they cannot feed, and so keeping them in the bondage of perpetual poverty. A poverty which fits ill besides the obscene wealth of the Vatican.