Crux news site [is] part of Opus Dei’s vast international outreach media machine;” the prelature having a reputation for being unabashedly pro-papacy. Inés San Martín, for her part, “earned her degree in journalism and social communications in part from Opus Dei’s flagship, the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

More problematic than the resignation question, is the fact that Benedict XVI wanted Francis as his right hand man, which would mean that he agreed with Francis' views on many things - including Francis' continued demolition of tradition

+Francis "helped" the new-sspx in Argentina because he was working to "integrate" the new-sspx into becoming part of the new-rome religion.  Just like +Benedict partially lifted the excommunications of the sspx bishops, and he "freed" the 1962 missal for use through the motu proprio of 2007 - all of this was done with one intention - to get the new-sspx to "make a deal" with new-rome.
.
The "friendship" of the new-sspx with the Argentinian dioceses was a first-step in the many partnerships that the new-sspx now has, all over the world.  +Lefebvre would have NEVER made such "friends" with novus ordo bishops, because he didn't need to.  His goal was to keep Tradition alive and to save souls - not to "dialogue" or get "regularized" by heretical, modernistic new-rome.  The new-sspx has nothing to gain from such "friendships" because catholic morals always get desensitized when a catholic hangs around with bad companions.
.
The V2 religion cannot reach its goal - which is a one-world, anti-christ, humanistic religion for all peoples and races - until Tradition, the True Faith, is neutralized.  This has been satan's goal since the beginning of time.  The sspx is the largest Traditional organization in the world and if it falls, then the devil and his many freemasonic "catholic" clerics will have removed the last stumbling block on the road to their satanic goals.
.
+Fellay and his administration has helped to corrupt the new-sspx for the past 20 years.  It seems that such a fall of the new-sspx is inevitable, as they continue to grow more and more at ease with new-rome.  Let us all prepare ourselves for a coming persecution.  The time may soon come when the True Mass will be hard to find, when True Priests will be scarce and in hiding, when many former "trads" will accept the one-world religion en masse.  Let us not be scandalized at those who will in the coming future, like many of the Apostles, leave Christ in the Garden of Eden when confronted with persecution by the soldiers.  But let us pray that Our Lady will give us the grace to be like St John and St Mary Magdalen, who followed Christ through all His sufferings, no matter the cost.