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And is Benedict's overt message now causing widespread whetting of
the Long Knives, sabers and scimitars by the Bergoglio paladins who
over-reacted pathetically to the most innocuous Preface/Afterword
he wrote for Cardinal Sarah's book? P.S. What I certainly did not expect were these instantaneous (i.e, via Twitter) STUNNINGLY DUMB, PATHETICALLY EMBARRASSING reactions from two CPIs (certified Bergoglio idolators) who should, like Donald Trump, remember to think (twice, at least, if their initial expressive impulse may be considered 'thought' at all) before they tweet anything!
Melloni is the last surviving member of the original 'Bologna school' who co-opted everyone else in publishing their 5-volume History of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) before any conservative Church historian thought to do so, thereby imposing their progressivist ’spirit of Vatican II’ hermeneutic of rupture on most of the world, reinforcing what all those men of the Church who thought like them had already been imposing in their own limited circles. And Faggioli (whose full name translates appropriately as ‘maximum beans’) is an ardent Bergoglian Vaticanista whose analyses of Church events in the age of Bergoglio are necessarily skewed.
Perhaps the most laughable line from these two Bergoglians is that someone else wrote Benedict XVI’s funeral message for Cardinal Meisner!
1) This would be the first time anyone accused Joseph Ratzinger of requiring and using a ghost writer, much less for a very personal homage to one of his dearest friends; and
2) Neither of them obviously recognize the phrase Benedict XVI used about the Church in his 2005 Meditations and Prayers for the Via Crucis in the Rome Colosseum, in the opening line of the prayer: “Lord, your Church often seems like a boat about to sink, a boat taking in water on every side.”
In fact, let us look back at the entire meditation and prayer he wrote for the Ninth Station of the Cross on that occasion. Every person who works in the Church ought to have these emblazoned on his brain, or failing that, on his refrigerator door so he can see it at least once a day, and as a poster in his sacristy where he can see it everytime he vests for a liturgy.
As the supreme realist he has always been, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has never shrunk from acknowledging openly what is wrong with the Church – the sins and offenses towards which he has devoted his entire life as a minister of the Church to correct and minimize, since they cannot be eliminated altogether.
That is why his words will always be relevant to man, the Church and the world today… And though much of what he says may seem to apply very particularly to the situation of the Church in the era of Bergoglio, these temptations and tendencies have always been present in the Church, and that is why at Holy Mass, prayers are constantly invoked for the Church and all who work with her.
NINTH STATION
Jesus falls for the third time
MEDITATION
What can the third fall of Jesus under the Cross say to us? We have considered the fall of man in general, and the falling of many Christians away from Christ and into a godless secularism.
- Should we not also think of how much Christ suffers in his own Church?
- How often is the holy sacrament of his Presence abused, how often must he enter empty and evil hearts!
- How often do we celebrate only ourselves, without even realizing that he is there!
- How often is his Word twisted and misused!
- What little faith is present behind so many theories, so many empty words!
- How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to him! How much pride, how much self-complacency!
- What little respect we pay to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, where he waits for us, ready to raise us up whenever we fall!
All this is present in his Passion. His betrayal by his disciples, their unworthy reception of his Body and Blood, is certainly the greatest suffering endured by the Redeemer; it pierces his heart. We can only call to him from the depths of our hearts: Kyrie eleison – Lord, save us (cf. Mt 8: 25).
PRAYER
Lord, your Church often seems like a boat about to sink, a boat taking in water on every side. In your field we see more weeds than wheat.
The soiled garments and face of your Church throw us into confusion. Yet it is we ourselves who have soiled them! It is we who betray you time and time again, after all our lofty words and grand gestures.
Have mercy on your Church; within her too, Adam continues to fall. When we fall, we drag you down to earth, and Satan laughs, for he hopes that you will not be able to rise from that fall; he hopes that being dragged down in the fall of your Church, you will remain prostrate and overpowered.
But you will rise again. You stood up, you arose and you can also raise us up. Save and sanctify your Church. Save and sanctify us all.
This pope would do well to have these words hung on his door instead of the pop-psych twaddle he now has there.
I do not know what someone like Andrea Tornielli may have said by now, but his initial ‘tweet’ simply quoted from Benedict XVI's eulogy. And so did the initial ‘reaction’ from another charter FOB (friend of Bergoglio), Luis Badilla, the editor of the semi-official aggregator of Vatican news, IL SISMOGRAFO (which, unlike the two Anglophone Catholic news aggregators, offers complete stories, not just headlines, from their original sources whether Italian, Spanish, French, or English).
But the fact that the first reactions from the four Bergoglians was either unfounded and inevitably silly derision, and ‘No comment’, in effect, tells us that none of the four were able to quickly muster any argument to pose against Benedict’s words. Or, Tornielli and Badilla may have initially decided they were not going to even indicate they saw in Benedict’s words any criticism whatsoever of the church of Bergoglio, therefore, just quote Benedict and make no comment! Whereas Melloni and Faggioli both behaved like clowns, or better yet, dunces! On his part, Antonio Socci’s first reaction was to cite the ff instant reaction from an Italian blogsite…
Benedict XVI:
‘The boat of the Church is on the verge of capsizing’
Translated from
LIBERTA E PERSONA
July 15, 2017
What does Benedict XVI think? What does he say? Does he agree, more or less, with Bergoglio ? What does he think of the Four Cardinals’ DUBIA?
To all these questions, one could only give a vague response. But some, who are advocates of the new course in the Church, have pointed to the ‘correctness’ demonstrated by Benedict XVI with regard to his successor – i.e., he has never criticized him, because he is in complete agreement!
[Up to the Preface/Afterword he prepared for Cardinal Sarah’s book, and the fact that he chose not to attend the last two cardinal-making consistories, I unhappily thought that the Emeritus Pope had simply allowed the impression conveyed by official Vatican news reports and photos of a ‘love fest’ between the two popes, on top of the seemingly total approval of his successor that he said to Peter Seewald as published in their interview-book, were unfortunate reinforcements of the open derision if not contempt with which he has been treated by people like Mundabor, Louie Verrecchio, Frank Walker, even Hilary White, and all the other bloggers who call him ‘nu-Benedict’ or some such term.
But alas, what’s in the book will remain on the record – and few will care that the words were probably said shortly after the election of Bergoglio, before he had said and done anything truly alarming, words that must also be seen in the light of Benedict’s spontaneous statement to the cardinals before the 2013 Conclave promising ‘obedience and respect’ to whoever would be elected pope. Assuming, of course, like we all did, that his successor would be a Catholic pope, not a quintessential anti-Catholic in disguise!]
Others who are critical of many decisions made by this pope, would point to some facts that appear to signify just the opposite – like the preface of Benedict XVI to the second book by Cardinal Robert Sarah, who is certainly not in the liturgical and doctrinal line of Bergoglio.
And the DUBIA? Many things would seem to indicate that Benedict XVI agrees with the Four Cardinals: his own Magisterium; his profound friendship with all four, two of them fellow Germans; the statements made by his secretary Mons. Georg Gaenswein who once said publicly, referring to Amoris laetitia, that Church doctrine cannot be changed by a footnote to a papal document, and on another occasion, offered the information that Benedict XVI has been following the debate over the DUBIA (and his use of the term in itself indicates that the emeritus pope finds the topic interesting and not unfounded).
Today, after reading what Benedict XVI wrote to memorialize the death of his friend, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, emeritus Archbishop of Cologne, it would be difficult to pretend not to know what he thinks!
Wny? First of all, because Benedict XVI reveals that he had spoken by phone to Cardinal Meisner the day before he died: “When I learned last Wednesday by phone of the death of Cardinal Meisner, I could not believe it initially. We had spoken on the phone the day before. He sounded very happy because he was now on vacation…” Therefore Benedict XVI and Meisner, one of the Four Cardinals who sent their DUBIA on AL to Pope Francis, continued to be in touch regularly up to the end.
It‘s difficult to imagine that Benedict would have distanced himself from such a crucial act by his dear friend. It’s difficult to imagine that they did not also speak this last time of Cardinal Mueller’s defenestration, considering that the latter – rudely dismissed, probably because he did not take a ‘rupturist’ interpretation of AL – had been appointed CDF Prefect by Benedict himself.
And it must be noted that Meisner, the day before he died, had spoken to both Benedict and Mueller, to whom he expressed his profound sorrow that he had been dismissed from the Curia. Surely, Benedict must have felt the same.
In any case, we have a cardinal who signed the DUBIA who, up to the day before he died, was following the situation of the Church, speaking to two friends both known for their orthodoxy.
And what did Benedict write in remembering the cardinal who was his intiate friend? “We know that he was a passionate shepherd, and that the office of pastor is difficult, especially at a time when the Church has need of pastors who can resist the dictatorship of the Zeitgeist (the spirit of the times)”.
In which there is a clear and positive judgment for the passionate shepherd who goes against the mainstream, against the dictatorship of the Zeitgeist. It is not difficult to understand who, in the case of the DUBIA, is with the spirit of the times - certainly not Burke-Brandmueller-Caffarra-Meisner!
But Benedict says more: “However, what moved me most is that he lived the last phase of his life… increasingly with the profound certainty that the Lord does not abandon his Church, even if sometimes the boat has taken on so much water that it is on the verge of capsizing…”
Benedict does not have doubts: Meisner did not betray the Church by raising questions, ‘in the last phase of his life’, about certain fundamental passages in AL. Meisner has always loved the Church, even seeing that the boat of Peter is on the verge of capsizing!
That line about the boat of the Church is an inapellable statement that links Meisner, his faith, his fight against the spirit of the Zeitgeist which has entered the Temple, and the terrible crisis towards which the Church is heading! [And is it not already crisis when her supposed leader shows every day in every way that he is really anti-Catholic???]
Benedict concluded his tribute by writing: “When, on that last morning, Cardinal Meisner didn’t appear at Mass, he was found dead in his room. His breviary had slipped from his hands: he died praying, looking to the Lord, speaking with the Lord. The manner of death which was granted to him shows once again how he lived: looking to the Lord and speaking with the Lord. “
For the cardinal who was accused by men of the Church who are now ‘in’ of being against the reigning pope, of wanting to divide the Church, etc. , there could not have been a more eloquent eulogy from a man who is still dressed in white and who signs himself “Benedict XVI, Emeritus Pope”.
Socci’s own comment:
HERE IS WHY THE POPE (THAT IS, BENEDICT XVI) HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND IS STILL SO OPPOSED BY THE MEDIA AND THE POWERS OF THE WORLD, WHILE BERGOGLIO IS ADULATED BY THEM:
God’s messengers are often not welcome. This was the case with the prophet Amos… Whether he was accepted or rejected, he continued to prophesy, preaching what God says and not what men want to hear. This remains the mandate of the Church: do not preach what the powers of the world want to hear. Amos’s criteria were truth and justice even if these did not gain applause and opposed human powers".
-BENEDICT XVI
July 15, 2012
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