Continuing about Pope Benedict’s comment —. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was asked on Bavarian television in 1997 if the Holy Spirit is responsible for who gets elected. This was his response:
I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope. … I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined.
Further:
Thank you for Pope Benedict’s comment. I’m seeing it in the consideration of the wrong turn of Vatican II. The corrective method is to have the very worst possible “Holy Father” installed, to magify and outrage. Yes, Holy Spirit indeed.