It is unbelievable that conservatives and even the SSPX consider Ratzinger "a conservative". It was he who gave us Archbishop Muller and Francis. Can they be that blind? or are they just liberals?
Since the election of Francis the Vatican Insider (mostly) has had many articles on the triumph of Liberation Theology. Surely, enough to warn anyone simply confused. Now, they (the Roman apostates) are about to turn it into "official doctrine". When are they going to wake up? It's about time the "conservatives"(who conserve nothing) , including +Fellay, tell Rome: Go to Hell if you want, we are going to keep the faith and save our own souls and as many others as we can. We have wasted enough time.
Christian traditionalism is regarded as being beyond the pale and so Ratzinger's conservative lapses would appear to be very suspect by the Bergoglio fan club. Menzingen would pick up on these lapses and cry: "Hallelujah, the Church is being restored!" ..... and Bp. Fellay would call on hs tailor for a new fitting.
Perhaps it was a question of time before liberation theology was given a comfortable niche inside the Vatican. We never know but it may be keeping company with reconstituted Lefebvrism one day when Rome gets even more accommodating. But not in Bergoglio's time; he has a revolution to advance!
Perhaps Bergoglio is intentionally directed to go overboard so that his successor can earn conservative street cred by pulling back from the "excesses." This would facilitate absorption of an SSPX that has had a few more years to soften up.
I think he is the real thing; a child of two revolutions! While he concentrates on and gives spiritual gloss to his pet economic theories, his predecessors remained in the world of philosophy and imposed their new ideas on the Church. Bergoglio is less inclined to tolerate the religious and liturgical practices of an age he disdains. The new church will settle down quite well with him in charge. There is definitely no joy for trads here; they must rely on their own resources and stop all this wishful-thinking.
Yes, "The new church will settle down quite well with him in charge" but...with approval of "pope emeritus".
I have read articles about BXVI being "a transitional pope" on the Vatican Insider (easy search). Transitional to what? To the "end of the old Church and the beginning of the new" as was stated by BXVI on Dec. 2012. It was known from the very beginning that his goal was to "bring traditionalists back to the Church" (namely, the SSPX). At that time, John Vennari warned that BXVI had the potential of fracturing the traditional movement when he wasted no time changing the Good Friday Prayer for the conversion of the Jєωs and Summorum Pontificuм was nothing but a trap to get + Fellay into the "Hermeneutics of Continuity". I have published previously an article plotting how to get the SSPX to fall for Summorum Pontificuм which appeared just nine months before its release.
It was BXVI who approved "The Aparecida Docuмent" which is the footprint of Francis' pontificate. BXVI was present at the CELAM Conference in Brazil were the Docuмent was created by the South American Liberation Theology Jesuits, among them: Bergoglio.
The expert on this "Aparecida Docuмent" is Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a missionary in S. America for many years. He was one of the papal contenders and in frequent private audiences with BXVI and now Francis. Cardinal Ouellet translated the "Aparecida Docuмent" to Italian for all the priests of the Diocese of Rome a few months ago.
The
"New Church" stated by BXVI
is "The New Evangelization" or "Evangelical Catholicism" which has no use or room for proselytism and which has wreaked havoc in South America where it has been experimented since VII. BXVI was present at the CELAM Conference shortly after his election and gave the opening speech and finally approved the "Aparecida Docuмent" within days of the release of Summorum Pontificuм in 2007. He knew full well the direction they were going but Summorum Pontificuм would ensure (they hoped) the SSPX's "reintegration".
It was BXVI who approved the Neocatechumenal Way (called it "a gift of the Holy Spirit") and other "Ecclesial Realities" such us Communion and Liberation which he is very tied to as was JPII. Women from this group are the ones who have cared for BXVI since his election and continue to care for him in his "retirement".
At the funeral of the founder of Communion & Liberation, Fr. Giussani, Cardinal Ratzinger stated: "Fr. Giussani...understood that Christianity is not an intellectual system, a packet of dogmas, a moralism, Christianity is rather an encounter, a love story; it is an event".
As Catholics in a time of "general apostasy", we have to be "wise as serpents and simple as doves". We are left to save our own souls because our pastors and even traditional bishops are not doing their duty watching and praying. Praying alone is not enough. +Fellay and conservatives have been obstinate in seeing BXVI as a conservative and because of it, BXVI succeeded in fracturing the SSPX. BXVI is a Modernist. They will have to find out the hard way.