On the Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem"

I've been remiss in reporting the motu proprio which Pope Benedict released yesterday, frankly because I don't quite understand yet what it is designed to do or how it will accomplish its goals.

A good place to start, though, would be to poke through the comments at Rorate Caeli.

One meme that is being circulated in the mainstream media is that this is Pope Benedict's way of "disciplining" the figures behind the embarrassing holocaust controversy from a few months back (embarrassing only in that the Vatican was not informed and prepared for it).

I'm not sure if I quite buy that because Cardinal Hoyos was at the mandatory age of retirement anyway, and the organizational restructuring that the motu proprio calls for seems common sensical in its own right.

So please, chime in and help me get this right in my head.