Benedict XVI’s writings are truly inspirational and reveal a deep spirituality and love for Christ and His Church.
As bad as Bergoglio is now, I think he will go absolutely hog wild apesh¡t as soon as Benedict is gone.
This is a long, complex but beautifully written article that raises a number of good questions about the “liturgical reform.” And the author is right: things are bad now and have been since VII, and while BXVI proved incapable of defeating the forces of evil and in fact fled, imagine if Bergoglio had been elected right after JPII. We wouldn’t have had the one thing BXVI managed to do, which was give universal permission for the Old Mass. While that too looks like it’s not going to last, at least young people and priests got to experience it for awhile, and I think this shaped many of them who are now standing up to Bergoglio.
On another note, while I too sometimes feel angry at BXVI for abandoning us, I felt very sad when I read that there is not a single representation of him to be found anywhere in the souvenir shops of Rome. It’s as if his years didn’t exist, and their memory is being wiped out by simply making him disappear because they obviously might raise questions about the New Church of Bergoglio.
Vatican II did bring about a “new (false) Pentecost” because it also promulgated a new (false) religion.