But why would Benedict play along with it?
Perhaps because Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) did not wish to suffer the same fate of Pope John Paul I, who was summarily murdered (poisoned) by the Freemasons immediately after his election to the papacy.
The Masons and communists long ago infiltrated the Church - and saw to it that the seminaries were saturated with sodomites. The “smoke of satan” has penetrated the Church at its highest levels.
Pope John XXIII (Roncalli) was a Freemason, as was Pope Paul VI (Montini) - who was also a flaming sodomite (irrefutable evidence of both - which is why the first attempt at his beatification was quietly rescinded).
The Church has suffered a putsch - its “silent Revolution of 1917” ... It is a test by God so to separate the wheat from the chaff.
You know God is pissed when he allows his people to fall into the hands of corrupt leaders - both secular and ecclesiastical.
“Interesting times” in which we now live, no?