Well, he would have known what BXVI was doing. Benedict laicized something like 800 priests in countries all over the world. He also retired a huge number of Bishops who were involved in devious things. He had gotten McCarrick out and removed his ecclesiastical honors and had him in isolation, basically. Francis brought McCarrick back almost immediately upon getting rid of BXVI.
Pray for Benedict XVI. He's 91 but he's still got a good mind and his heart is still beating. I have my own hypothesis of how they forced him out, and if they did what I think they did (head meds via the ex-KGB: I saw what I think is post-hypnotic suggestion in action, but of course I don't know anything), B16's abdication was invalid and he is still Pope, ad maiorem Dei gloria.