Ratzinger was very much a fan of the Hegelien dialectic.
Like I said, now you'll never know, surrounded on all sides Pope Benedict XVI was then easy to depose and usurp... you've got the usurper and antipope Bergoglio to deal with now, how's that working? The remnant of the remnant of the remnant will eventually become the irrelevant and non-existent.
As said before, if the early Christians were like this, then Constantine the Great would have been over before he even begun... the Diocletian Persecutions however provided them with clarity and thankfully they did not spurn such graces all because a fallible human being lacked perfection.
God Bless