Benedict XVI’s resignation constituted a significant step on the path to "humanizing" and "democratizing" the papal office according to liberal Father Raniero Cantalamessa, 84, the longtime preacher of the papal household.
During a retreat for the US bishops last week Cantalamessa went on calling the present deadly Church crisis a “golden age" compared to past centuries when many bishops were more concerned about governing their territory than caring for the flock.”
[At least then, the bishops were not actively engaged in leading the flock into the abyss and, after all, still had a flock left.]
Picture: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-SA, #newsDnsefakoog
Governing the flock and caring for the flock are not mutually incompatible. Indeed, if one’s duty includes governing, one manifests one’s care in part by striving to govern as well as possible.
Benedict XVI’s resignation constituted a significant step on the path to "humanizing" and "democratizing" the papal office.. Except this part is objectively true. Let's not forget that Ratzinger, a fellow Modernist, was part of the periti at Vatican II.
