The book Windwept House deals with that scenario. The author, Malachi Martin, explains how it happened in a thinly veiled novel. Hence, the ugliness of the modern art, architecture, and music,which are the symbols of the takeover.
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Pope Benedict was one of the Priests in Windswept House, but not one of the very, very evil ones. He was supposedly Cardinal Reinvernunft.