You should learn more about this Pope, perhaps. The "Nazi scumfuck" rhetoric is not in keeping with "respect in discourse," but not without basis. I knew of him years before his ordination thanks to living in Germany, where he was very outspoken as an insufferable church hardliner - and apologist for the Nazi era. As an adult, dig?
For many years he was the agenda-setter behind JP2 and came up with the doctrinal declaration of 2000 that emphasized once again for the ages that Catholicism is the one and only Truth and everyone else is going to hell, no exceptions, zero tolerance.
Ratzinger headed an office in its own way as infamous as the Nazis, but with a far longer history: that of the Inquisition (now known under a much longer name, but it's the same, historically continuous institution). That's right, he's the successor to those who burned Bruno.
But getting back to the subject here: Remember when the Church issued an apology to Galileo?! When was that, in the 1980s or 1990s?
The Vatican has nothing to say about matters of science - or any aspect of reality, for that matter. It's not simply that its not composed of experts, non experts can also read and formulate opinions. But its history is of open and active hostility to science.