Bishop Joseph Pfeiffer on Ratzinger's death:
Well, for the most part he's not wrong ... except where he says Ratzinger was the Holy Father

. He didn't go into much detail about the actual heresies that Ratzinger himself taught and promoted that betray this idea that he was some kind of Traditionalist. I agree with his assessment that the "friendliness" of Ratzinger toward Tradition was calculated to divide Traditional Catholics. I also agree with him in both asking for God to have mercy on his soul and yet calling out his legacy of evil. Is it possible that right now, evoking some of the images from his talk, Ratzinger is asking God to have +Lefebvre dip his finger in the water to bring him some relief? Is it possible that right now Ratzinger is asking if he could return to warn others of his errors, only to have God respond that they have the teaching and the Tradition of the Church, and if they do not listen to those, they will not listen to Ratzinger returned from the dead either.
There were a couple of curiosities here, however. He asserts that Ratzinger made a deal with Bergoglio in 2005 conclave, where Ratzinger came out on top and Bergoglio was the runner-up, that Ratzinger would be pope for a few years, then resign, then Bergoglio would be pope for a few years, then resign ... all to weaken the papacy and make it something more like a political office. Is there evidence for this?
Second curiosity is his assertion that Ratzinger sent infiltrators into the seminary at Econe in 1986 and that 9 of them were discovered and expelled. Is this true and what is the evidence for it?