So to disinfect the Church, one must be well aware that this is the Revolution. One must also be well-versed in the traditional Magisterium and the Counter-Revolution; only in this way can the Church be liberated. Mgr. Lefebvre denounces liberalism in his book „A Bishop Speaks‟: „There were time bombs in the Council… three… collegiality, religious freedom, ecumenism,‟ and during a retreat in Écône in 1990, he said: „And we too have chosen to be counter-revolutionaries.‟ The future pope, „perfectly Catholic,‟ as Mgr. Lefebvre hopes, will have to correct all the errors of Benedict XVI.

Here are some of the most serious doctrines taught by Benedict XVI and published in the Osservatore Romano.

The popes of Vatican II teach the opposite of the popes before them. How can one disobey the doctrine that all Popes, always and everywhere have taught?

Notice: you can verify these citations either by purchasing CDs from the Osservatore Romano, or directly on the Internet by entering the name of the pope, the occasion on which he gave the speech and the date, they often give you the full text.

1 John 5:4: „The victory that overcomes the world is our faith,‟ and not the betrayals of the faith.

• Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 25.03.2012: „The word ‚Liberation Theology’, which can also be interpreted for good, will help us a lot.‟
• Pope Benedict XVI prepares the agreement with China. „Vatican.va‟: „’Explanatory Note’, Benedict XVI’s letter to Chinese Catholics of May 27, 2007: ’Letter to the bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China’… I hereby revoke all the faculties that had been granted to deal with particular pastoral needs, which arose in particularly difficult times.‟ [It is therefore Benedict XVI who forbade the true clandestine Catholic bishops from carrying out clandestine consecrations and ordinations.]

The Left has understood that Ratzinger’s „Restoration‟ is a false restoration… and what about us? [see on our site the bulletin „The pseudo restoration‟ with the texts from the left]

„On May 24, I wrote to the Cardinal: ‚The purpose of the talks and the reconciliation is to reintegrate us into the conciliar Church.’… And especially if there were an arrangement, even more so! Because, invaded by a quantity of people who will come: ‚Ah now you have the Tradition, you have the Tradition and recognized by Rome, so we will come, we will come to you.’ But a quantity of people who will keep their modern spirit, who will keep their liberal spirit… And that will be very dangerous for our circles: if we are invaded by that world, you see, what will become of Tradition? Little by little there will be this kind of osmosis that will occur and this kind of consensus, like this: ‚And after all, the new mass is not so bad! We must not exaggerate.’ Slowly, slowly we will end up no longer seeing the distinction between liberalism and tradition, and all that. Very dangerous, you see. You know when one is contaminated by liberal ideas, one contaminates others. It’s fatal, like a real contagious disease, it’s dangerous, very dangerous. Whereas for the moment we are well in the Tradition, in the Fraternity we hold as firmly as possible.

But if we do not have the means, once again, to defend ourselves either in Rome or by the bishops we must have to protect us, so that they are bishops who have the same thoughts as us, who will preach as we preach, who have the same ideas as us and who will consequently maintain the Catholic faith in our circles, well we are lost! We are lost, we will no longer be able to hold on, it is no longer possible. That is why here too, dear friends, if there are some among you who really do not agree, with for example the consecration of bishops, or I don’t know, not in agreement on certain problems, such as precisely that of absolutely refusing the new mass or for example on the subject of religious freedom, if there are some who do not agree, who believe that religious freedom is not bad, that it is a mistake to fight against religious freedom, etc., they must not stay with us.

It is a contamination, what can you do, it’s like contaminated subjects. If subjects begin to be contaminated in our midst and slowly, slowly it’s one, it’s two, it’s three, it’s four, it’s five; and then slowly the ideas begin to soften, to soften in the fight. If there are soldiers who begin to no longer have the courage to fight, who begin to stand a little aside saying ’oh oh, I don’t know, we don’t know if we can go, we’re not going, we don’t know what we’re doing.’ Then it’s over, you see the influence that has on others! With that one has the impression that some always stay behind, that they do not want to fight, so it demoralizes the fighters, but yes. Now, our fight, my dear friends, is a fight that is not difficult: we want the Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, that’s what I said.‟

Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, „For the Love of the Church‟, Conference on June 11, 1988

The citations and dates are taken from the Osservatore Romano. The most complete texts are available on our site marcel-lefebvre-tam.com.

They want to declare Benedict XVI „Doctor right away.

‟Il Timone‟, 01.02.2023.

There are not many people who have the time and the facility to know Benedict XVI. We want to make our modest contribution. This helps to understand the past, the present and to predict the future of Vatican II. Pope Benedict XVI is, doctrinally, much worse and much more elaborate than Pope Francis, who, in another aspect, is more theatrical and many Catholics do not know this and are content with the media image to which the liberal-Marxist system in which we live subjects us.

Benedict XVI subverted all theology in its philosophical and theological foundations, in fact, the Opera Omnia of Benedict XVI is studied in „conservative‟ seminaries while Pope Francis has put it into practice in a more popular way but only in a few points.

For example, Francis does not speak and does not theorize or very little, all the modernist doctrines of Benedict XVI on religious freedom, ecumenism, anti-Marian doctrine, false restoration, the Agreement on the doctrine of justification, the replacement of the Magisterium by Scripture, the introduction of Anglican priests and married bishops into the Church, Judaization, etc. On the contrary, at the time of Benedict XVI, the Osservatore Romano insisted doctrinally, every day, on modernist themes. Read the Osservatore Romano and you will see.

The media made you believe that Benedict XVI was a „conservative‟ (that is to say a moderate, not a progressive) and, to make us swallow this image, made concessions, for example on the traditional Mass, but always on the condition of accepting Vatican II with the liberalism of freedom of conscience condemned by the previous Magisterium. This is a bait to attract those who do not know the „infallible and irreformable‟ magisterium of the previous popes.

The Left, in a Catholic-communist magazine in Rome, with mocking lucidity, justifies the fact that Ratzinger must present himself as a conservative to get the changes in the Church passed. „Adista‟ 30.04.2005: „If the Church needs changes, Ratzinger could have said [at the Conclave]… it is good that I lead them myself: it will be easier to make them accepted.‟

This speech by Benedict XVI to the Roman Curia is a synthesis of his thought and his pontificate. Believe what he says. He himself wants to show it openly and he wants to be recognized for it.

Benedict XVI was elected pope on April 19, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI, after resigning on February 11, 2013 and before the election of Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, he made a summary of the Revolution in the Church of Vatican II and of his pontificate, he himself makes it explicit, like a testament, for those who would not have understood it yet:

The most prepared, let’s say those who had better defined intentions, were the French, German, Belgian and Dutch episcopates, the so-called ’Rhine alliance’ [this is confirmed by the book: ’The Rhine flows into the Tiber’, by Wiltgen]… It was they who showed the way… The first of the reforms… was the liturgical one… the second ecclesiology; the third the word of God, Revelation… We began to put forward the concept of ’People of God’… a concept that implies the continuity of the Testaments… But it was only after the Council that an element was brought to light, which in the Council itself remained a little hidden, that is: the link between ’People of God’ and ’Body of Christ’. It is truly communion with Christ in the Eucharistic union. Here we become the Body of Christ; that is to say that the relationship between People of God and Body of Christ creates a new reality: communion… We have directed towards this concept… communion as a central conception. [This is Ratzinger’s theory that whoever has a valid Eucharist is part of the Church]. … And finally ecumenism… Concerning these themes, the ‚Rhine alliance’ had, so to speak, done its work. [He can affirm this since he was part of it]… Religious freedom,… America, the United States, were very interested in religious freedom. In the third period of the Council they said to the pope: We cannot go home without taking with us in our luggage a declaration on religious freedom voted by the council… [And Pope Ratzinger concludes with the false restoration]: The true Council had difficulties in materializing… But the real strength of the Council was there and it is being realized progressively and ever more… it is also the true reform and the true renewal of the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 16.02.2013

NOTE: you will see that some articles are repeated because they are useful to illustrate the themes of the different chapters. We accompany these texts with comments that help even the faithful, the less prepared, to understand the seriousness and consequences of the errors. We apologize for any spelling and syntax errors, also because we use the translator and the material is more abundant than the time we have. We seek above all to make known the most important modernist material, leaving to others the task of doing a more refined work.

„These dogmas… of the Assumption… one wonders if… we have not prepared for our Protestant brothers unnecessary obstacles on the path to unity.‟

„It is also in this perspective that the particular structure of Marian dogmas must be seen, which, if this is the case, can absolutely not derive from particular texts of the New Testament.‟ [And the dogma of the Divine Maternity?]

„At first glance, the insertion of Mariology into ecclesiology, undertaken by the Council, may seem rather fortuitous. It is true that from a historical point of view, in reality, a very small majority of fathers spoke in favor of this inclusion. But from a more internal point of view, this decision corresponds perfectly to the orientation of the Constitution as a whole: it is only if this correlation has been understood that one can correctly understand the image of the Church that the Council wanted to draw. This decision is based on the research of H. Rahner, A. Müller, R. Laurentin and Karl Delahaye, thanks to whom Mariology and ecclesiology were simultaneously renewed and deepened. Hugo Rahner in particular has shown magnificently from the sources that all Mariology was conceived and established by the Fathers above all as ecclesiology: the Church is virgin and mother, she is conceived without sin and bears the weight of history, she suffers and yet she is already raised to heaven… This is already true for the woman of the Apocalypse, as she appears in chapter 12: it is not correct to limit this figure exclusively in an individualistic way to Mary, because in her is contemplated together the whole people of God, the old and the new Israel… Thus, only the chapter on Mary completes the conciliar ecclesiology and brings us back to its Christological and Trinitarian starting point.‟

„All this is taken up and summarized once again in the last chapter of the Constitution on the Church, which deals with the Mother of the Lord. The question of whether or not to dedicate a separate chapter to her was widely debated. I think it is a good thing that the Marian element entered directly into the doctrine of the Church.‟

„At the Council, in the second session of the Council, an important group of Fathers asked that the Virgin be treated in the Constitution on the Church, while an equally important group supported the need for a specific document that would adequately highlight the privileges and the singular role of Mary in the redemption… With the vote of October 29, 1963, it was decided to opt for the first proposal… Mary… her cooperation in the divine plan of salvation and the unique mediation of Christ.‟ [This blocks the future dogma of the Mediation of the Virgin Mary. All these bishops then no longer defended the Blessed Virgin from the entire anti-Marian Revolution led by the 5 anti-Marian popes]

„Paul VI in his speech (said) ‚…We declare Mary Mother of the Church’… In fact, with this title the Pope summarized the Marian doctrine of the Council and gave the key to its understanding… In order to clarify the internal structure of the teaching on the Church developed by the Council [sic]… It is however also announced in advance that the ‚offspring’ of the woman will conquer and crush the head of the serpent.‟

„Stimulate your particular Churches… proposing to them a purified popular religiosity.‟ [This is the thesis of the mixed group of Dombes, see Doc. Rév. Église no. 8]

„She is… Blessed… because She has become the dwelling place of the Lord. The dragon is the representation of all the powers of violence of the world. The Woman… facing the dragon thus armed, this Woman who is Mary, who is the Church, appears vulnerable and defenseless.‟

„The Apocalypse… This Woman represents Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer, but she simultaneously represents the entire Church, the People of God, of all times, the Church of all times which with great pain, gives birth to Christ anew and always.‟

„By remaining Herself in the Word, she can also become the new ‚Dwelling’ of the Word in the world [?]… The Woman who suffers in history, the Church who is persecuted, in the end she appears as a splendid Bride, a figure of the new Jerusalem.‟

„This dragon so strong, who wanted to devour the God made child and the Woman, the Church.‟

„There will be a son of woman who will crush the head of the ancient serpent… Mary was the first to be freed from the original fall of our first parents.‟ [„freed‟ or preserved?]

„The life and faith of the people of believers show that the grace of the Immaculate Conception made to Mary is not only a personal grace, but it is for all. It is a grace made to the entire people of God.‟ [Are we all immaculate?]

„By enriching the Rosary with the luminous mysteries.‟ [Did the Virgin give an impoverished Rosary?]

„In the footsteps of the Fathers, who saw in the ‚woman clothed with the sun’ of Revelation 12:1, the image of the Church.‟

„Rupert, moreover, takes care to insert his Mariological doctrine into the ecclesiological doctrine. …Paul VI, … solemnly proclaiming Mary Mother of the Church.‟

„It is You who vanquished the serpent, who crushed his head, when the God you bore annihilated him…‟

„But a son of woman will come who will crush his head.‟

„Dante Alighieri, in the last canto of the ‚Divine Comedy’: ‚humble and exalted more than a creature’.‟

„Paul VI… was in fact maturing an ever wider and more organic vision of the relationship between the blessed Virgin Mary and the mystery of the Church… In this context he proclaimed the Most Holy Virgin ‚Mother of the Church’,‟ [What is he trying to insinuate? See below O.R. 11.04.2009]

„Jesus thus entrusted John to take care of Mary, that is, of the Church, the people of God [This is Ratzinger’s thesis, that Mary is the Church. And the people of God is the new ecumenical people of God]… there were 4 women… the fourth one only reports the parental link, she is Mary’s sister and therefore Jesus’ aunt.‟ [So, for him, Saint Anne had another daughter after the Immaculate Conception?]

„He who rides the clouds walks today on all fours… the Spirit has given a resemblance in earthworms, so generation is done without coupling… today she has dissolved her corruption by giving birth to the Savior.‟ [He speaks of the Virgin, she was not „corrupted‟ by original sin]

„Mary… We all, today, are well aware that by the term ’heaven’ we are not referring to any place in the universe, to a star or something similar: No.‟ [Yes, She is in a place in the universe! Because no body can exist outside the universe]

„In the great Church, … The woman represented at the side of Christ is certainly Mary… and also represents and above all madam the Church.‟

„John came to bury the body… buried her body. The rank of the Apostles accompanied the resplendent soul of her who is the Mother of the Son of God… Adoration to the Son who for the burial of his Mother gathered prophets, apostles and patriarchs.‟

„The Apocalypse… represents at the same time the Blessed Virgin and the Church… On the head of the Woman clothed with the sun there is a crown of twelve stars. This sign represents the twelve tribes of Israel… It introduces us to the second great interpretation of the celestial sign of the ‚Woman clothed with the sun’: besides representing the Virgin, this sign personifies the Church, therefore the Dragon; vanquished once and for all in heaven, he turns his attacks against the Woman: the Church.‟

Documentation of how, at the Second Vatican Council, despite the two recent dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, and the two great apparitions of Lourdes and Fatima, the 21st ecumenical council, instead of making an exclusive text on the Virgin, under the pretext of ecumenism with the Protestants, reduced everything to a chapter of „Lumen Gentium‟:

„On September 16, 1964, the preparatory schema on the Virgin Mary became a modest Chapter VIII of the constitution ‚Lumen gentium’. Moreover, this chapter is mutilated and the title of ‚Mother of the Church’ has been omitted. Thirty-three fathers take the floor and many protest against these modifications. Card. Ruffini, archbishop of Palermo, accuses the text of tarnishing Mary’s cooperation in the work of the Redemption; he also asks that the term ’Mediatrix’ be explained.

Mgr Mingo, archbishop of Monreale in Sicily proposes that the term be specified by ’Mediatrix of all graces’ and protests against the suppression of the title ’Mother of the Church’. Card. Wyszynski, archbishop of Warsaw, on behalf of 70 Polish bishops, asks that Mary be proclaimed ’Mother of the Church’ and proposes that the text become a complete schema again.

Curiously, even Card. Suenens supports these interventions, despite their opposition to the position of the European Alliance. He reproaches the text for minimizing the importance of the Blessed Virgin. Far from being discouraged, the Alliance reacts to defend its project.

Card. Leger (Quebec) argues that ’abuses of Marian cult must be firmly repressed’, he denounces the ’verbal inflation’ of Marian theology, adding that it should not be ’confused with depth of thought’.

Card. Döpfner, on behalf of the 90 German-speaking and Nordic bishops, affirms that the text, as it is, is perfect.

Card. Bea, for his part, explains that the title of ’mediatrix’ should be suppressed because a conciliar text ’is not a manual of private devotion’ especially since, he adds, ’the role of Mary as mediatrix is not theologically certain.‚‟

(Extract from the synthetic history of the Second Vatican Council, DICI, Nouvelles certitudes, no. 11, 2002. Intermultiplices Una Vox, documents)

„Mary… does not go to an unknown galaxy.‟ [He reiterates his thesis from O.R. 17.08.2010: „The body of the Virgin is not found in any place in the universe.‟]

„What does Mary Queen mean?… The kingship of Jesus [and of Mary] has nothing to do with that of the powerful of the earth… In helping us in all our needs; she is our sister and humble servant.‟

[Pius XII 01.11.1950: „We define as a dogma… that Mary… was assumed… in body and soul… If therefore anyone doubts, let him know that he has failed in the divine and Catholic faith.‟]

„At the Council, in the second session of the Council, an important group of Fathers asked that the Virgin be treated in the Constitution on the Church, while an equally important group supported the need for a specific document that would adequately highlight the privileges and the singular role of Mary in the redemption… With the vote of October 29, 1963, it was decided to opt for the first proposal… Mary… her cooperation in the divine plan of salvation and the unique mediation of Christ.‟ [See the text of „Una Vox‟ cited on page 9. This blocks the future dogma of the Mediation of the Virgin Mary.]

„The mystery of her Divine Maternity, which we celebrate today, contains in superabundance that gift of grace that every human maternity carries within it [so the divine maternity is only something ‚superabundant’ compared to ‚every human maternity’]… the Church also participates in the mystery of the divine maternity.‟ [The Incarnation is therefore not something exclusive]

Cardinal Ratzinger declares: „Restoration? Yes, if it means a new balance… if by restoration one means to go back, then no restoration is possible.‟

• The cardinal himself affirms that a restoration is taking place. We may be on the eve of a large-scale operation, no less important than Vatican II, and which will continue even after his death. This is the worldly political method to legitimize „centrism‟ against the opposing extremisms of right and left, but it is not the supernatural logic of truth. This method will continue for many years. Card. Ratzinger says: „In this sense, one can say that the first phase after Vatican II is over…‟ (The Ratzinger Report, p. 36).

„Restoration? Yes, if it means a new balance… if by restoration one means to go back, then no restoration is possible: the Church advances towards the fulfillment of history, its eyes fixed forward on the Lord. But if by ‚restoration’ one means the search for a new balance, after the exaggerations of an opening to the world without discrimination, after the too positive interpretations of an agnostic and atheistic world, then yes, this ‚restoration’ is desirable, it is moreover already at work… …Yes, the problem of the Sixties was to acquire the better expressed values of two centuries of liberal culture. [“liberty, equality, fraternity”, Mgr. Lefebvre had warned us: ‟There were three time bombs in the Council, liberty, equality, fraternity‟. (‟An Bishop Speaks‟)] These are in fact values which, even if they were born outside the Church, can find their place - purified and corrected - in its vision of the world. This is what was done.‟

„Council… The problems of reception arose from the fact that two contrary hermeneutics were confronted and disputed with each other. One caused confusion, the other, silently, but ever more visibly has borne and bears fruit [The ‚fruits’ are to have made various traditionalist personalities and communities fall into error: Mgr Rifan, the abbots Aulagnier, Laguérie,… and it continues]. On the one hand there is an interpretation that I would like to call ‚hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture’; … On the other hand there is the ‚hermeneutic of reform’ of renewal in continuity… This is a subject that grows in time and develops… The seed however grows… One realized that the American revolution had offered a model of state different from that theorized by the radical trends that emerged in the second phase of the French Revolution… Catholic statesmen had demonstrated that a modern secular state could exist, which is not however neutral with regard to values, but which lives by drawing from the great ethical sources, opened by Christianity. Catholic social doctrine, which is constantly developing, had become an important model between radical liberalism and the Marxist theory of the state… One could say that three circles of questions had formed, … between faith and the modern sciences… Secondly… the relationship between the Church and the modern state… thirdly… the relationship between the Christian faith and the religions of the world… [And Pope Ratzinger concludes with the false restoration]: Between the Church and the faith of Israel… It is precisely in this set of continuity and discontinuity on several levels that the nature of the true reform consists… thus the fundamental decisions remain valid… the Second Vatican Council, by recognizing and making its own, with the Decree on religious freedom, an essential principle of the modern state, recovered the deepest heritage of the Church [sic]…. It clearly rejected the state religion. The martyrs… also died for freedom of conscience.‟ [martyrs for freemasonry…]

„Nihilists deny the existence of all truth; fundamentalists claim to impose it by force.‟

„Facing the poles of subjective free will and fundamentalist fanaticism of the other.‟

„The Church, starting from a renewed conscience [?] of the Catholic tradition, takes seriously and discerns, transfigures and surpasses the criticisms that are at the basis of the forces that have characterized modernity, that is to say the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Thus the Church herself welcomed and recreated the best of the instances of modernity,… a new civilization, the ‚civilization of love’.‟

„And, thank God, the wise helmsmen of the barque of Peter, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, have, on the one hand, defended the newness of the Council and at the same time, on the other, defended the uniqueness and continuity of the Church.‟

„The reconciliation between the modern era and faith, which was, in a certain way, the master idea of Vatican II… Some thought that now again one could not remain behind the new spirit… there were others, who, on the contrary, declared that the very orientation of the Council was a failure.‟

[Those who do not know the errors of the modern world and the errors of the Revolution can obviously not understand the errors of Benedict XVI and obviously accept his idea of drawing a middle line between truth and error „purified‟. On the other hand, those who know modern errors and study Benedict XVI understand that it is not a question of „purified‟ principles because these are precisely the liberal and Masonic ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity based on the subjectivism of conscience and not on objective truth.]

„We are witnessing two extreme opposite tendencies, both negative: on the one hand secularism which, in a devious way marginalizes religion to confine it to the private sphere, on the other hand fundamentalism which, for its part, would like to impose it by force.‟

„Neither confessional, nor pragmatic.‟

„Aware of the developments in culture and society, the Second Vatican Council proposed a new anthropological foundation for religious freedom.‟ [„A new foundation‟… here it is the hermeneutic of rupture with the previous teaching].

„The authentic spirit of Vatican II… through its documents, protects from extremes, both from anachronistic nostalgias and from leaps forward; it allows us to grasp newness in continuity. [Here Benedict XVI reaffirms the fundamental thesis of his pontificate: the middle line between the traditional Magisterium and progressivism]. The Council, in matters of faith, did not imagine anything new and did not want to replace what is old.‟

• Pope Benedict XVI, in order to recover the Society of Saint Pius X, had lifted the excommunication of the four bishops of this same Society but not that of His Excellency Mgr. Lefebvre and H.E. Mgr. De Castro Mayer. But after Mgr. Williamson’s interview on Holocaust denial, and under pressure from indignant Jews, he was forced to back down, remove his mask and thus miss his trap to the point that the Osservatore Romano itself declared: „A bad scenario has been staged‟ (26.01.2009). After all this, Benedict XVI made a new adjustment to the situation:

1. He asks the Fraternity for doctrinal consent.
2. He repeats that this is an operation of „recovery‟ [This had already been declared in 1988, during the consecrations of the bishops, without papal authorization, to recover the traditionalist priests who did not agree with Mgr Lefebvre. See 30 Giorni, October 1988: „The recovery operation continues‟. But „despite the aggressive ’recovery operation’ well conducted and implemented by the Vatican authorities, the traditionalist army of Mgr Lefebvre is far from being defeated and retreating, as many believe today‟ (Il Sabato, July 8, 1989)].
3. He asks that the „recovered‟ priests change their traditional spirit to the modernist one.
4. He explicitly states that one must enter the „Great Church‟ (Card. Ratzinger, O.R. 04.03.2000), so it is not the Roman Church.

„The commitment of the Dicastery to overcome the doctrinal problems… of the Society of St. Pius X… and for the full integration of the faithful who belong to Anglicanism.‟

„In the multiple discussions about the possibility of a readmission of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X into the Church, facing the Jews, the Holy Father charged me with presenting the question correctly… a rapprochement of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X in no way means that the positions of the said Society are accepted or supported… From the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has however left no doubt about the fact that he fully subscribes to the Second Vatican Council and its documents, in its necessary overall vision… The accusation of ‚deicide’ which unfortunately was directed wholesale against the Jews in various places over the centuries is also dismissed… Israel… a state that perceives itself decidedly as Jewish.‟ [So the „positive, healthy, authentic, etc… secularism‟ of Benedict XVI is valid only for the Catholic Church]

„With Benedict XVI the tiara disappeared from the official coat of arms of the Pontiff, and the bridges that cross the river of Rome are, today, safer and wider.‟

„For the development of law… it was decisive that Christian theologians took a position against religious law, claimed by faith in divinities, that they placed themselves on the side of philosophy, recognizing as a valid legal source for all reason and nature in their correlation.‟

„Even in the name of the Christian faith, violence has been used. We recognize this with great shame. It is the task of all those who have any responsibility for the Christian faith to purify the religion of Christians.‟ [Here too it is the hermeneutic of rupture and not of continuity]. A reminder to us believers, to all believers to purify their own faith.„ [All religions must be rationalized and secularized]

„Fifty years of liturgical formation… with the aim of renewing the mentality… The liturgy… the great educator… A constant and correct relationship between sana traditio and legitima progressio… the liturgy renews the Church.‟

„The end of temporal power, subsequently felt as providential.‟

„Court of the Gentiles… a just secularism… by overcoming convictions.‟

„It seems to me almost a miracle that more than 2000 bishops, who came to Rome to begin the Council in 1962, and many of them formed in a theology of ‚exclusion’, according to which Orthodox and Protestants, schismatics and heretics, in the terminology in use at the time, were simply outside the Church, were able to produce, three years later, the decree ‚Unitatis redintegratio’, …John XXIII spoke of a ‚Leap forward’… The texts of this year were prepared in Jerusalem.‟ [It is not a miracle, the bishops were imbued with modernism for a long time, moreover Saint Pius X since his pontificate officially denounced the infiltration of modernism]

„Already during the Second Vatican Council two factions had formed which were soon called respectively ‚conservative’ and ‚progressive’, …In the meantime Benedict XVI has given an important impetus to the conciliar hermeneutic. … in renewal, the hermeneutic of the Second Vatican Council must start from the idea of development of the great masters of the school of Tübingen and the doctrine of development of John Henry Newman.‟

„Will it be possible to assert, with all, this principle of communication which will allow the legislator, if it proves necessary, to also adopt repressive measures, … Among these deviations are also… fundamentalism… anti-modern tendencies that would call into question the undoubted acquisitions of modernity.‟

„Between the extremes of superficiality and fanaticism, there are those who transform faith into a banner that flies in the midst of storms, … they raise it to the top of the palace of politics, thus creating theocracies and sacralized regimes, imposing the reading of faith through a fundamentalism… In the middle of these two extremes…‟

„Pope Ratzinger is not the gravedigger of Vatican II… just as his documents are a firm reference ’sheltered from extremes, both from anachronistic nostalgias and from leaps forward’, as he himself recalled.‟

„Too often Benedict XVI is not read in his originality and newness… Why must everything he says necessarily fit into the old schemes of progressive or conservative… will it take historians 100 years to understand it?‟ [So, neither progressive, nor conservative.]

„The Popes of the 19th century condemned the Declaration (of 1789 on human rights)… Catholic positions in favor of human rights, the most striking of which was certainly that of Jacques Maritain, multiplied during and after the Second World War… but the real obstacle to total acceptance by the Church is freedom of conscience, which will only be welcomed by John XXIII in his encyclical ‚Pacem in terris’ of 1963.‟ [Finally they admit what the ‚prince’ of Vaticanists, Zizola, had already said: „no pope has reached the charism of John XXIII‟]

„In reality the Council… if one thinks of the rich Tradition of which it is the guardian, but also of the ‚discontinuity’, for having welcomed the instances of modernity.‟

„Ten years after the Council the Christian faith finds itself torn between its reduction to an earthly messianism and a new integrism; the right middle has not yet been found. Ratzinger… in 1985 notes that: ‚The conciliar interpretations, whether from the right or the left, highlight the character of rupture of the Council, either to reject it, or to radicalize the renewal’. There is, on the contrary, a continuity that allows neither backward movement, nor forward flight, nor anachronistic nostalgias, nor unjustified impatience.‟

„’The way to follow is neither disobedience nor stiffening. Benedict XVI has historicized his response.‚‟

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 16.02.2013: „The prepared texts… cardinals Liénart and Frings had said publicly: ‚not like that’. We want to make our own lists and elect our own candidates… It was already an experience of the universality of the Church [democracy in the Church] and of the concrete reality of the Church, which does not simply receive injunctions from above [from papal authority. They chose to do as the Protestants do]… The most prepared, let’s say those who had better defined intentions, were the French, German, Belgian and Dutch episcopates, the so-called ’Rhine alliance’ [cf. the book: ’The Rhine flows into the Tiber’, by Wiltgen]… It was they who showed the way… The first of the reforms… was the liturgical one… the second ecclesiology; the third the word of God, Revelation [The primacy of Scripture over the magisterium, [see here Chap. X and his ’theology of encyclicals’ in ’The new people of God’ (Part II chap.3, a)], and finally also ecumenism… Let’s start with the first. The liturgical movement, a rediscovery of the richness and depth of the liturgy… The second theme, the Church… The doctrine on the primacy… for a complete ecclesiology… Romano Guardini said: ‚The Church is beginning to awaken in souls’… We are the Church… We must complete the ecclesiology in a theological way, while also pursuing it in a structural way… and to do so we found the word ‚collegiality’… The Body of the Apostles, the Body of Bishops, is the continuity of the Body of the Twelve… The Body of the Church, with the bishops successors of the Apostles, as carrying elements… In the fifties, we were already beginning to criticize the concept of ‚Mystical Body’ of Christ. This term would be too spiritual, too exclusive; at that time, we began to put forward the concept of ‚People of God’… a concept that implies the continuity of the Testaments… But it was only after the Council that an element was brought to light, which in the Council itself remained a little hidden, that is: the link between ‚People of God’ and ‚Body of Christ’. It is truly communion with Christ in the Eucharistic union. Here we become the Body of Christ; that is to say that the relationship between People of God and Body of Christ creates a new reality: communion… the Council led to this concept… communion as a central conception. [This is Ratzinger’s theory that whoever has a valid Eucharist is part of the Church]. The problem of Revelation was even more conflictual. It was here about the relationship between Scripture and Tradition… Compared to the Protestants, who were making great discoveries, the Catholics felt a little handicapped by the need to submit to the Magisterium. [For us, it is our glory, but for Ratzinger it is a handicap]… Tradition is not above Scripture… And finally ecumenism… Concerning these themes, the ’Rhine alliance’ had, so to speak, done its work. [He can affirm this since he was part of it]… Religious freedom,… America, the United States, were very interested in religious freedom. In the third period of the Council they said to the pope: We cannot go home without taking with us in our luggage a declaration on religious freedom voted by the council… The great document ’Gaudium et spes’… ’Nostra ætate’ and a more synthetic and more concrete document, so these two documents, ’Religious Freedom’ and ’Nostra ætate’, joined to ’Gaudium et spes’ are an important trilogy, but whose importance only appeared in the following decades, and we are still working on it. [And Pope Ratzinger concludes with the false restoration]: There was the Council of the Fathers, the true one, and the Council of the media, of the journalists [progressive]… The true Council had difficulties in materializing… But the real strength of the Council was there and it is being realized progressively and ever more… it is also the true reform and the true renewal of the Church.‟

„It is an inescapable truth of faith that the magisterial statements of an ecumenical council are the infallible expression of the revealed divine truth… We cannot admit an error on the part of a general council… So an interpretation of the Council that allows for the recognition of the organic development of the ‚depositum fidei’ must also be possible. [sic] … For Vatican II too, it is the post-conciliar magisterium that authentically and coherently interprets the conciliar texts with the entire tradition of the faith…‟

„The constitution ‚Lumen gentium’, which expounds the teaching on the Church, refers for a good 16 times [uselessly] to the doctrinal documents of the Council of Trent; so it is still present in the doctrine and in the life of the Church 150 years later.‟

Cardinal Walter Kasper: „Maritain, Henri de Lubac. Unlike Lefebvre, they did not criticize the Council itself, but they criticized its reception.‟ They say that Vatican II is ambiguous, not false, in fact if they had to explain themselves, it is because the texts were not clear but they do not say that they were false, for example the text on religious freedom]

„He who has not understood the innovative scope of the figure of Josef Ratzinger and his pontificate, who has continued to see him, to interpret his words and his actions as proof of conservatism and refusal of novelty, has been strongly denied by his sudden and unforeseen resignation, an absolute novelty… His pontificate, in fact, has been characterized above all by a great and profound intellectual work [She confirms that Ratzinger made the doctrinal Revolution published in his ‚Opera omnia’]… The priority of his pontificate was to begin a process of evangelization [doctrinal] and purification [doctrinal] of the Church… He has not ceased to denounce, in his speeches to the Curia, the poisonous effects of internal struggles.‟ [Card. Bertone spoke of a „nest of vipers‟… it is the new pentecost].

[The Left, in a Catholic-communist magazine in Rome with mocking lucidity, justifies the fact that Ratzinger must present himself as a conservative to get the changes in the Church passed. „Adista‟ 30.04.2005: „If the Church needs changes, Ratzinger could have said… (at the Conclave) it is good that I lead them myself: it will be easier to make them accepted.‟]

[Even the Marxists have understood that certain reforms (revolutions) would be better done by Benedict XVI, and have we understood it? It is the same method that is used in politics when it is the leaders of the ‚right’ who propose subversive laws: it is more effective because their political base remains paralyzed and reacts less than if they were made by the left.]

„From Benedict to Francis, the quiet Revolution… was a quiet revolution… Benedict… the work of purification [doctrinal] of the faith… Francis will draw the practical consequences with an easier and more immediate language, dense with concrete examples [If you have not understood, they tell you themselves in the Osservatore Romano: Benedict, more doctrinal, sowed and Francis, more theatrical, makes it grow!] the popes continue the revolution of Ratzinger. [Thank you for officially explaining it because there are traditionalists who have not yet understood.]‟

[The same Catholic-communist Roman magazine, lets us know to what point of apostasy have succumbed the unfortunate ones who have abandoned the position of Mgr Lefebvre to submit to Vatican II. „Adista‟, 04.03.2002: „Licinio Rangel, [Brazilian, consecrated bishop in place of Mgr de Castro Mayer by the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X] made a profession of faith, he pronounced the oath of fidelity to the Pope declaring to accept all the teachings of Vatican II…… Father Cottier… Campos… Little by little it will be necessary to foresee new steps: for example that they also participate in celebrations in the reformed rite. But we must not be in a hurry.‟]

„It is feared first of all that the Authority [sic] of the Second Vatican Council is being undermined and that one of its essential decisions – the liturgical reform – is being called into question. This fear is unfounded… The last edition of the Missale Romanum… of 1962… may, on the contrary, be used as an extraordinary form of the liturgical celebration. It is not appropriate to speak of these two editions of the Roman Missal as if they were ‚two rites’. It is rather a dual use of the one and same rite [‚same’?]. We all know that, in the movement led by Archbishop Mgr Lefebvre, fidelity to the old Missal has become its external symbol; but the reasons for this rift have deeper roots [We agree with Benedict XVI that it is not about the issue of the Mass, which can be granted with an ‚indult’]. Many people who clearly accepted the binding nature of the Second Vatican Council [Benedict XVI tells us that it is no longer a pastoral council] and who were faithful to the Pope and the Bishops, also wished to rediscover the form of the Holy Liturgy to which they were attached [for archaeologism]… The Pope thus wanted to help especially the Society of Saint Pius X to find full unity with the successor of Peter… It is a matter of achieving an internal reconciliation within the Church.‟

„It is necessary to defend the Second Vatican Council against Mgr Lefebvre, as a duty that obliges vis-à-vis the Church and as a permanent necessity.‟ (Speech of Cardinal Ratzinger to the bishops of Chile, „Concilium‟, 1988).

• Card. Bertone O.R. 28.08.2009: „The thought of Benedict XVI… from the texts published in the Osservatore Romano… it would not be difficult to reconstruct his project for the Church and society.‟
• Mgr. G.L. Müller, O.R. 11.12.2013: „Benedict XVI exposes… his fundamental Christological perspective presented systematically in his book ‚Introduction to Christianity’ (1968).‟
• Card. Gerhard Müller, O.R 19.04.2015: „In the long years of his academic activity as a professor of fundamental and dogmatic theology, Ratzinger elaborated an autonomous theological work, which places him in the line of the greatest theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries. For more than fifty years, his name has been synonymous with a complete original project of systematic theology.‟

Ratzinger with his „Opera omnia‟ created the „complete doctrinal project‟ of the new church and the new conciliar religion, and this is what is currently studied in seminaries. Ratzinger with his „Opera omnia‟ laid the doctrinal foundations of the conciliar religion.

Pope Ratzinger has these ideas published in his „Opera omnia‟ by having it declared that: O.R. 23.10.2008 „Each volume individually is expressly authorized by the Holy Father.‟

The Vatican intensely promotes Ratzinger’s „Opera Omnia‟ through numerous articles and full pages in the Osservatore Romano.

It is Ratzinger who theorizes the change of the papacy carried out by Pope Francis with the 147-page document „The Bishop of Rome‟ of 13.06.2024. You will find a complete summary on our website.

Ratzinger says in „The New People of God‟ (Part II, Chapter 4.3): „The question of the interpretation of Vatican I… Creates a ‚third position’ that does not allow for making the episcopate a mere instrument of the papacy.‟

„The Patriarchates owe their origin to a non-Roman privilege… What I wanted to highlight above all is that Rome, on this level, has no right over the other Patriarchates… has no mandate of central administration [Card. Ratzinger cites Anselm of Havelberg; he finds him ‚grandiose’] However now the Roman Church…, separated from us… erecting itself into a monarchy… The Church of Rome has always assumed in the West… a rank which conferred on it a position very much beyond what was signified by the Petrine primacy… The attachment of the whole West to the liturgy of the city of Rome… Thus the plural of ecclesiae disappears more and more… the city of Rome incorporates the whole Latin orbis… The whole West… loses more and more the ancient structure of unity in plurality… The most obvious example of this process is the transformation of the conception of the patriarchate… The cardinalate is an institution of the city of Rome… The patriarchate is an institution at the level of the universal church… The cardinalate now presents itself more and more as a charge at the level of the universal Church. [Card. Ratzinger manifests where, for him, the main error is, and thus shows where one of his main heresies is]: Precisely because the Universal Church is identified with the Church of the City of Rome, from the 13th century the cardinal becomes superior to the patriarch… In the unity of the one Ecclesia there must be room for the plural of ecclesiae: only the faith is indivisible… Everything else can be different [sic]. The image of state centralism… does not derive simply from the function of Peter… The unitary ecclesiastical law, the unitary liturgy, the unitary assignment of episcopal sees by the Roman central authority, these are things that do not necessarily flow from the primacy as such… …to create new patriarchates without considering them incorporated into the Latin [Roman] church. Therefore to accept unity with the pope would no longer mean to attach oneself to a unitary administration. The unity with Rome, in the structure and in the concrete actualization of the life of the communities, could be as ‚impalpable’ as in the ancient church.‟ [Card. Ratzinger has succeeded in ‚volatilizing’ the papacy]

„It is possible and even necessary to make a critique of certain papal declarations… Where the unanimity of the universal Church does not exist… a binding decision is not possible… One can therefore perceive as a deviation… the Christian reaction… in the Syllabus of Pius IX and in the pontificate of Pius X.‟

„Rome must not demand from the East, concerning the doctrine of the primacy, more than what was formulated and lived during the first millennium.‟

„The Document (Instructio)… affirms, perhaps for the first time with such clarity, that there are decisions which may not be the last word on the matter as such… it is… also an expression of pastoral prudence, a kind of provisional disposition… they may need further rectifications… one can think of the declarations of the Popes… on religious freedom… of the anti-modernist decisions… of the decisions of the Biblical Commission.‟

„Meanwhile the Holy Father, promulgating the encyclical Ut unum sint (May 1995), affirmed… ‚Listening to the request made to me to find a form of exercise of the Primacy which, while in no way renouncing the essential of its mission, can open up to a new situation’ (95)…. Also emphasizing the theological dimension of Tradition, to determine what was considered depositum fidei during the first millennium on the Primacy of the successor of Peter, and how the conviction of faith on this subject has progressed up to the definition of Vatican I and the teaching of Vatican II… taking into account the principle, also mentioned in the letter of the CDF (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) Communionis notio, to the bishops of the Catholic Church, on certain aspects of the Church considered as communion, that it is necessary to distinguish in the ministry of Peter the substance of divine institution, from the concrete forms or expressions of its exercise carried out over the past two millennia‟ (cf no. 17)… the increase in knowledge of historical data (and exegetical with reference to the Bible), leads to a deepened theological vision of the Roman Primacy and of the ecclesiological function. This will help to always better distinguish what is necessary, and which cannot be renounced, from what is accidental and not essential to the truth of faith.„ [We recommend reading the entire text]

„The Primacy… cannot be conceived as a monarchy of a political nature. Avoid relapses… of Gallicanism and Ultramontanism.‟

„The ministry of the successor of Peter is a particular case of the episcopal ministry… the distinction between the nature of the Petrine ministry and the possible modalities of its exercise… the immutable nature of the Primacy of the Successor of Peter has been expressed historically by modalities of exercise adequate to the circumstances of a pilgrim Church in a changing world. [Ratzinger continues to historicize historical reality to justify that it is then possible to change it]… It is however fundamental and necessary to affirm that the distinction between the nature of the Petrine ministry and the possible modalities of its exercise must be made in Ecclesia, that is to say under the assistance of the Holy Spirit [Sic, it must be the Pope who changes the papacy. And Pope Francis, a disciple of Ratzinger, wrote the document ‚The Bishop of Rome’ on 13.06.2024, where he overturns the papacy.]‟

„Paul VI… already in April 1967 recognized that the Primacy is ‚the greatest obstacle on the path of ecumenism.’‟

„It is no longer the Magisterium that imposes norms on exegetes… It is the opening of Vatican II… However, let us not condemn the past lightly.‟

„The council of Nicaea speaks of three ‚primacies’: that of Rome, but Alexandria and Antioch also participate in a certain sense in a ‚primacy’.‟

„This responsibility the Pontiff knew how to exercise in the West and in the East, He demonstrated in this way how the exercise of the Roman primacy was necessary at the time, as it still is today, to effectively achieve communion, a characteristic of the one Church of Christ.‟

„The Catholic faith believes that the universal Church has its essential structure in the Roman Pontiff and the Episcopal College.‟

„John Scotus… He develops stimulating theological reflections:… ‚All authority that is not confirmed by reason, should be considered weak.’‟

„The People of God is ‚the preceding magisterium’ which must then be deepened and intellectually welcomed by theology.‟

„His Holiness Bartholomew I wanted to invite the Christian brothers, the representatives of the other religions of the world and personalities from the world of culture and science, to participate on October 25 next in Assisi.‟

„We know that it is especially on the question of the primacy that we must continue, with patience and humility, the efforts for its just understanding. I think that the reflections concerning the discernment between the nature and the form of the exercise of the primacy, as John Paul II made them in the encyclical ‚Ut unum sint’ (1995), can still give fruitful impulses.‟ [Let’s get ready]

„To His Holiness Bartholomew I of Constantinople… Your Holiness.‟

„These days Cyril I, Patriarch of Moscow… His Holiness.‟

„First of all I would like to recall with esteem His Holiness Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the see of Mark.‟ [There are starting to be many popes!]

„’Motu proprio’… No. 62 ‚abolishes the mode of election known as per acclamationem seu inspirationem and per compromissum, the form of election of the Roman pontiff will henceforth be solely *per scrutinium’.‟

On the general theme of the papacy, review the important speech reported above by Pope Benedict XVI to the clergy of Rome (O.R. 16.02.2013) which is a summary of Vatican II and his pontificate.

The purpose of the new doctrine of Ratzinger-Benedict XVI on the primacy of the pope is to delegitimize the infallible and irreformable magisterium of the popes before Vatican II.

„The pontificate of Benedict XVI, welcomed with enthusiasm by the Orthodox Churches… The Orthodox side recognizes that ‚The Church is effective at the local, regional and universal level, and that one of these levels, the universal, needs a primacy, that is, a pròtos. And the Pròtos at the universal level is naturally the Bishop of Rome. Benedict XVI, moreover, has recalled this proposal.’‟

„In the magisterium of Benedict XVI it is the Christological foundation… The cause of ecumenism is the guiding thread of his pontificate. He refers to the ‚purification of memory’ and foresees in the ‚interior conversion’… but he already exercises now… an ecumenical primacy. … I will therefore concentrate on the essential point of his ecumenical action… On this essential support of the Christological faith lies the ecumenical vision of Pope Benedict XVI [Christ yes, the Church no, this is the Protestant thesis] …One could draw the erroneous conclusion that the unity of the Church in the final analysis is only an internal reality. On the contrary, Pope Benedict XVI emphasizes that… it must be visible in this world [a single world church, external, visible, formal]… According to the Pope’s interpretation, he has absolutely no intention of referring the unity of Christ’s disciples to the end of time or of referring it to eschatology… the visible ecumenical unity of the Church, that is to say in the sense of the unity of Churches that remain Churches and at the same time become a single Church… not as a philanthropy, but as Christ logically founded. [This is always the thesis of Benedict XVI: doctrinal union, otherwise it would only be a form of unstable ‚social contract’ (O.R.28.01.2012) and this could not last in time] … Pope Benedict XVI reveals himself to be the greatest ecumenist of our time [Thank you for confirming this truth with authority, so he is ‚the greatest’ subversive and not a ‚restorer’ of the Catholic faith].‟

„The teachings of the truths of faith and of Catholic doctrine that it contains (Dominus Iesus), require from all the faithful a definitive and irrevocable consent… The Declaration presents itself… in fidelity and continuity [sic] with the ecclesial Tradition.‟

„The Church was finally recognized and experienced as something internal… not as an institution… What constitutes the Church are prayer and communion in the sacraments… In this theme is finally contained the idea of development, and therefore of the historical dynamic of the Church… For Newman, the idea of development was the true bridge that led him to convert to Catholicism… a new awareness. Above all… Henri de Lubac… highlighted that the term ‚Corpus Mysticum’, originally characterizes the holy Eucharist… What is meant by ‚Eucharistic ecclesiology?’… The first point is that the last supper of Jesus becomes the true founding act of the Church… indeed the Eucharist binds men to each other… and with Christ, and thus it makes them Church [Orthodox, etc.]. With this the fundamental constitution of the Church is given… The Church lives in Eucharistic community. Christ is everywhere whole… in union with the Orthodox brothers… The first correction [the Magisterium is corrected]… is found in Henri de Lubac who concretizes the idea of ‚Body of Christ’ in the sense of Eucharistic ecclesiology… The other… in Germany… They proposed the concept of ‚People of God’… the Church has not yet reached its goal… to express the historicity of the Church… The internal unity of the people of God, beyond the sacramental borders… the different ways in which attachment and orientation to the Church are possible and real, even beyond the confines of the Catholic Church… They are possible only if one does not want or no longer manages to see the great Church conceived by God.‟ [„The great Church‟… invented by Card. Ratzinger].

Pope Benedict XVI, a few days after his election, makes it known through Mgr. Bruno Forte, on two large pages of the Osservatore Romano, that his ideas as a theologian, bishop and Prefect of the Congregation for the Faith, are the reference point of his pontificate. Especially those contained in his (subversive) book „The New People of God‟.

Archbishop Bruno Forte, O.R. 24.4.2005 „’The ecclesial theology of Josef Ratzinger’. The theological production of J. Ratzinger… The work of the future Benedict XVI… influenced the conscience of the Church of Vatican II and of the post-Council until our days… Ratzinger does so by examining another axiom ‚extra Ecclesiam nulla salus’ (J. Ratzinger, ‚‟No salvation outside the Church?„, The new people of God’, part IV, chap. 2). The Church… can never presume to be an absolute… This Catholic unity is expressed historically in the variety of its concretizations [sic]… the universal Church manifests itself as a communion of Churches (‚The new people of God’ Part II, chap. 7). … The ecclesiology prior to Vatican II… The Council goes beyond this bipolar scheme… The formula *subsistit* of *Lumen gentium* 8, is the proof. The Council, observes Ratzinger: ‚renounced the east of an absolute identification (Corpus Christi est Ecclesia Romana Catholica)… in this light Ratzinger has no difficulty in affirming that: ’Rome must not demand from the East, concerning the doctrine on the primacy, more than what was formulated and also lived during the first millennium. …On the one hand the East… accepts the Catholic Church as legitimate… on the other hand the West recognizes as orthodox and legitimate the Church of the East in the form it has preserved’ (J. Ratzinger, ’The principles of Catholic theology’, Paris, Téqui, 1982).‟

„Is the affirmation that ‚outside the Church there is no salvation’ still valid?… The characteristic of the Church of being People of God… has seduced the post-conciliar ecclesiologists… Where his Body is, there is the Church.‟

„An era in the history of the Church is ending without new horizons being already visible… this will only be possible through a new pentecost… The Church of the future.‟

„Pope Benedict XVI has made a great contribution to this reflection… Speech to the Roman Curia of December 22, 2005. It is enough to recall the liturgical reform, episcopal collegiality, synodality, ecumenism, to touch on the well-known nerve points of the ecclesiology of communion and its interpretation… The relationship between the universal Church… and the particular Churches presuppose a Eucharistic ecclesiology, preceded by a baptismal ecclesiology… The Second Vatican Council was certainly a wind of pentecost that freed the Church from its isolation from the modern world and from its ecclesiological limits [sic].‟

„But it was only after the Council that an element was brought to light, which in the Council itself remained a little hidden, that is: the link between ‚People of God’ and ‚Body of Christ’. It is truly communion with Christ in the Eucharistic union. Here we become the Body of Christ; that is to say that the relationship between People of God and Body of Christ creates a new reality: communion… communion as a central conception. [This is Ratzinger’s theory that whoever has a valid Eucharist is part of the Church, for example the Orthodox]… But the real strength of the Council was there and it is being realized progressively and ever more… it is also the true reform and the true renewal of the Church.‟

„I hope that the dialogue… will contribute to increasing and maturing this ordered and harmonious ‚symphony’ which is Catholic unity… to give life to the other necessary transformations for the change of the world.‟

„Newman… opened a new era… the profound discovery of the great Catholica… The Group of Dombes… to anchor itself to the Catholica… … ‚Ratzinger, a star that guides the ecumenical path’.‟

„All agree: the universal Church is not the Church of Rome. Ratzinger responds to Kasper.‟

„The unity we seek is neither absorption nor fusion, but respect for the multiform fullness of the Church, which, in accordance with the will of its founder Jesus Christ, must always be One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic… He encouraged to consider the East and the West as tesserae that together compose the resplendent face of the Pantocrator, whose hand blesses the whole Oikoumene.‟

„This is the deepest meaning of catholicity, a catholicity… Catholicity means universality, multiplicity that becomes unity; unity that however remains multiplicity… We have already seen the capacity of peoples to surpass themselves and to look towards the one God who is part of this unity. In this perspective I greet cordially and with gratitude the delegation of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople… Unity that is already given to us to help the world to believe… The Church is not Holy by itself.‟

„Given the difficulties that the Orthodox have with the autocephalous Churches, as well as the problems of our Protestant friends facing the disintegration of the regional Churches, we realize the great significance of universality, how important it is for the Church to open up to the totality, becoming in universality truly the one Church… We purify ourselves and help each other reciprocally.‟

„The bond of sacramental communion is the Eucharist… a great space in which it will be necessary to express… the universal Church and the particular Churches, [is] that of communion… the Church manifests itself as a ‚sacrament’, that is, ‚sign and instrument of the intimate union with God and of the unity of the whole human race.’‟

„The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church:… ‚Ecclesiological and canonical consequences of the sacramental nature of the Church, ecclesial communion, conciliarity and authority’.‟

„It is necessary to change the style of organization of the Portuguese ecclesial community and the mentality of its members to have a Church in syntony with the Second Vatican Council.‟

„The Church has no confines… The religious confines are an invitation to evangelization in the perspective of ‚communion’ in diversity.‟

„Reconcilable only in an eschatological perspective, could only generate a slowdown and in the final analysis the paralysis of ecumenism itself.‟ [That is to say that the various Churches ‚hidden in Jesus’ must be reconciled before eschatology]. „The affirmation of the Second Vatican Council, that the true Church of Christ ‚subsists in the Catholic Church’ (LG no. 8), does not only concern the relationship with the Christian Churches and ecclesial communities, but it also includes the definition of the relationships with the religions and cultures of the world.‟

„Assisi… a memorable event… … God desires that we form a single family, in which we are all brothers and sisters.‟

„During the last decades, the ecumenical movement ‚arisen under the impulse of the holy Spirit’…‟

„Because ecumenism is not our work, but the fruit of God’s action.‟

„From these differences the Spirit creates a single and unique body.‟

„The sacramental nature of the Church.‟ [The Church is not a sacrament]

„The People of God is ‚the preceding magisterium’ which must then be deepened and intellectually welcomed by theology.‟

„For this the See of Rome… also received the charge entrusted by Christ to Peter, to be at the service of all the particular Churches, for the edification and unity of the whole people of God… The Chair of the Bishop of Rome represents, therefore, not only his service to the Roman community, but his mission of guide for the whole people of God.‟

„A major area in which it will be necessary to express a decisive programmatic commitment, at the level of the universal Church and the particular Churches, is that of communion… It is in realizing this communion of love that the Church manifests itself as a ‚sacrament’, that is, ‚sign and instrument of the intimate union with God and of the unity of the whole human race.’‟

„But should not it, the great Church, also allow itself to be generous, conscious of its long breath?‟

„We read in the dogmatic Constitution on the Church that there are in the ecclesial communion legitimate particular Churches.‟

• 1972 The book by Cardinal Ratzinger: „Democratization in the Church? Possibilities, limits, risks‟, by Benedict XVI – Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Maier. Publisher Apostolat des éditions.

„Several gifts of Christianity, such as for example the idea of democratic equality‟ [Democratic equality is one of the ‚gifts’ of Freemasonry].

„Only in compromise… can unity be re-established… in America democracy had become possible.‟

„Here we are at the Church, where their fantasies will offer us more ample material… So, what is the Church?… in times past [the modernists claimed that] it was a common error that authority came to the Church from outside, namely from God immediately; at that time, it could rightly be regarded as autocratic. But we have come a long way from that today… Ecclesiastical authority… And since this magisterium has its first origin in individual consciences, and that it fulfills a public service for their greater utility, it is quite obvious that it must be subordinated to them, thereby bend to popular forms.‟

„Joseph Ratzinger and Erik Peterson… So different and so close… In 1951, Ratzinger read Peterson’s ’Theological Treatises’, (he says): ’There was the theology I was looking for. A theology that uses all historical seriousness to understand and study the texts, that does not leave them in the past’.‟

„The phenomenon (Lefebvrist)… would have been unthinkable without the positive elements, which have generally not found sufficient vital space in the Church of today.‟

„The Church was finally recognized and experienced as something internal… In fact the Eucharist binds men to each other… and with Christ, and thus it makes them Church [Orthodox, etc.]. With this the fundamental constitution of the Church is given… The internal unity of the people of God, beyond the sacramental borders… the Church… even beyond the confines of the Catholic Church… They are possible only if one does not want or no longer manages to see the great Church conceived by God.‟ [„The great Church‟… invented by Card. Ratzinger].

„The theology of our time… helps us to feel the Church as presented to us by the Second Vatican Council.‟

„It is necessary to change the style of organization of the Portuguese ecclesial community and the mentality of its members to have a Church in syntony with the Second Vatican Council.‟

„The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church:… ‚Ecclesiological and canonical consequences of the sacramental nature of the Church, ecclesial communion, conciliarity and authority’.‟ (He repeats it also in the O.R. of 29.01.2011)

„This word ‚Church’ has a multidimensional meaning… concept of people of God… It opens to all peoples and unites them in a single people of God.‟

„But should not it, the great Church, also allow itself to be generous, conscious of its long breath?‟

„Canon law which was to be inserted into the theological vision of the Church formulated by the Council.‟

„The Church is the Church of all peoples.‟

„The first of the reforms… was the liturgical one… the second ecclesiology; the third the word of God, Revelation… We began to put forward the concept of ‚People of God’… the true reform and the true renewal of the Church.‟

„Recently the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the new evangelization was created.‟

„Migrations and new evangelization… new evangelization, to work ever more in a pluralistic context… paths of fraternal sharing… welcoming migratory flows… to become actors of the new evangelization.‟

„To exhort the Church, in this situation, to persevere in the esteem of ‚Muslims who worship one God’… so that in Africa every citizen may enjoy… also the right to freedom of conscience…. The new evangelization.‟

The method of Benedict XVI consists in changing the meaning of words or phrases of theology, he often uses the term „new way‟, the „new dimension‟, without explaining what it means, for example when he changes (and thus denies) the Incarnation, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Assumption, the immortality of the soul, this pushes the reader to try to guess something that you do not understand and that he does not explain.

This is very evident when he gives a new interpretation of the Incarnation in his book „Introduction to Christianity‟ (Part II, chap. 4,2,1). He affirms a new way of interpreting the truths taught by the traditional Magisterium and that there is a „new way‟ of understanding the truths. See Annex no. 11 of this bulletin, p. 83, or see on our site, Osservatore romano anno 2020, our study on the Incarnation.

Ratzinger’s book „Introduction to Christianity‟ whose original title is: „Einführung in das Christentum‟ should rather be interpreted as: „Introduction to the [new] Christianity‟, and Ratzinger’s book: „The new people of God‟ is rather „The new [Christianity] of the people of God‟.

One must also read all the documents issued by the International Theological Commission when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was prefect and head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005. Joseph Ratzinger was created a cardinal in 1977, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1981 and also became president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and the International Theological Commission.

Documents of the International Theological Commission of which Cardinal Ratzinger is president and head:

1. Theology, Christology, Anthropology (1981).
2. Reconciliation and Penance (1982).
3. Dignity and rights of the human person (1983).
4. Selected themes of ecclesiology (1985).
5. The consciousness that Jesus had of himself and of his mission (1985).
6. Faith and inculturation (1988).
7. The interpretation of dogmas (1989).
8. Some current questions of eschatology (1992).
9. Some questions on the theology of redemption (1995).
10. Christianity and religions (1997).
11. Memory and reconciliation: the Church and the sins of the past (2000).
12. Diaconate. Evolution and perspectives (2002).
13. Communion and service. Man created in the image of God (2004).

„The Church makes its own the openness and universality of the languages of man, of his images and of his concepts… The doctrine of the Church must be understood and interpreted correctly only in the Faith.‟

„One can consider as outdated the concerns of prudence and the doctrinal difficulties that determined the promulgation of the Decree Post obitum of condemnation of the ‚Forty Propositions’ [of Leo XIII] extracted from the work of Antonio Rosmini.‟

„I must still speak briefly of the third wave of de-Hellenization that is currently spreading… this thesis is not false; it is however crude and imprecise… but of a broadening of our conception of reason and its use.‟

„Of God one can speak only with the ‚no’, and it is only by entering into this experience of the ‚no’ that one can reach him. [This is not true because there is also the ‚way of excellence’ which teaches us that God possesses in the highest degree all that exists.]‟

„’Christianity and modernity’. ‚Judaism’… in my proclamation of the Christian faith this loving intertwining between Israel and the Church had to be central.‟

„Card. Newman. He studied and renewed the inner genesis of faith… Doctor of the Church.‟

• Pope Benedict XVI (pushes to error in two opposite directions: on the one hand he teaches the de-Hellenization of faith, denying the capacity of reason to know God (v. O.R. 14.09.2006), and on the other hand he exaggerates the capacity of reason in the sense of the Enlightenment: „To welcome the true achievements of the Enlightenment‟ (O.R. 23.12.2006).

• In the Osservatore Romano, one continues to extol Rosmini, Newman, Romano Guardini and others. It even seems that with this method, he mocks philosophers and theologians, as the famous philosopher Emmanueli Severino denounces, cited by the same Osservatore Romano, Angelo Marchesi, O.R. 16.06.2006: The famous Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino wrote in the Corriere della sera (08.06.2006) an article: „Ratzinger, this relativist‟.]

„I believe that neo-scholastic rationalism failed in its attempt to reconstruct the Preambula fidei with a reason completely independent of faith, with a purely rational certainty; all other attempts, which follow the same path, will ultimately obtain the same results. On this point Karl Barth was right to reject philosophy as the foundation of faith, independently of the latter: in this case, our faith would be based on variable philosophical theories.‟ [„variable‟?]

• 1998 Card. Ratzinger „Faith and reason‟, O.R. 19.11.1998, speaking of Faith and inculturation, denies the universal value of Greek philosophy by reducing it to an optional European historical culture that is not indispensable for interpreting Revelation. On the contrary, the Greek philosophers discovered the logical way of reasoning which is universal, even if it was discovered in Greece, the same is true for mathematics: it is universal.

„I must still speak briefly of the third wave of de-Hellenization which is currently spreading. … the synthesis with Hellenism, realized in the ancient Church, would have been a first inculturation, which should not engage other cultures. These should have the right to go back to the point preceding this inculturation, to discover the simple message of the New Testament and then to inculturate it again in their respective milieus. This thesis is not false; it is however crude and imprecise… There are certainly in the process of formation of the ancient Church elements that should not be integrated into all cultures. This attempt… of critique of modern reason from within absolutely does not include the opinion that one must now go back to before the Enlightenment and reject the convictions of the modern age… the intention is therefore not a negative critique; but of a broadening [?] of our conception of reason and its use.‟

„This afternoon will be beatified in Novara the venerable Servant of God, Antonio Rosmini, great figure of a priest… to become aware that the light of human reason and that of grace, when they walk together, become sources of blessings for the human person and society.‟

„And they are preparing to reach a new and important goal with the document: ‚In search of a universal ethic: a new look at the natural law’.‟

„Christianity is not a sum of ideas… a theology.‟ [He misses no opportunity to diminish the importance of doctrine]

„However, mathematics is an invention of the human mind to understand the created.‟

„Only in compromise [doctrinal compromises] and mutual understanding can unity be re-established. To prepare people for this attitude of peace is an essential task of pastoral care… Tocqueville, in his time had observed that in America democracy had become possible and it had worked, because there existed a basic moral consensus which, going beyond the particular denominations [of religions], united them all. [This is the philosophy of Freemasonry: morality: yes, dogmas: no. That is why Cardinal Ratzinger had the excommunication of Freemasonry lifted as officially confirmed by the Osservatore Romano of 15.11.2023]… It is the future of the world that is at stake… We must learn from Newman’s three conversions… if he had to propose a toast, he would have toasted first to conscience and then to the pope. [The Magisterium has always taught that the intelligence of man is obscured by original sin and that all natural truths are not accessible to the knowledge of man without the Magisterium.] To the pope can be dedicated the second toast because it is to him that the duty of demanding obedience to the truth falls.‟ [The Pope does not teach the truth but only demands that man obey the truth that his own conscience reveals to him.]

„We are alive in the memory of God… God, who is our memory.‟

„Reason no longer sees, but in the night of intelligence, love still sees.‟

„Rosmini… intellectual charity.‟

„For Newman… ‚From the moment I became a Catholic, I no longer had the slightest doubt… it did not seem to me to have a more solid faith in the fundamental truths of revelation… the sacramental nature of the Church… to overcome, little by little, the limits of a Church linked to a State’.‟

„Newman, a great Englishman whom I have admired for many years… I remain convinced of the importance of Newman’s ideas on society.‟

„The theme of the ‚consent of the faithful’ in the writings of John Henry Newman… Among his writings… the study ‚on the Consultation of the faithful in matters of doctrine’ has aroused, since its publication, bitter debates… Prof. Gillow even accused him of having denied the doctrine of the infallibility of the Church. For several years, the shadow of mistrust surrounded the person of Newman… He was a precursor of later times. His thoughts, even on the mission of the lay faithful in the Church, were fully welcomed a hundred years later. Tradition manifests itself differently and according to the times, writes Newman, ‚sometimes by the mouth of the episcopate, other times by the doctors, other times still by the people’. With Möhler, Newman defines the ‚sensus fidei’ as the common feeling or conscience of the Church.‟

„Newman whose writings strongly influenced the young theologian Josef Ratzinger.‟

„Newman guides, and often even inspires, a whole slice of high English culture… (High Church) which then converted to Rome… In the evaluation of this exceptional school, we encounter… R.H. Benson, G.K. Chesterton, Dickens, Lewis, Tolkien… and especially T.S. Eliot converted to Anglicanism and its Anglo-Catholic current.‟

„A contribution to intellectual charity [sic]… Josef Ratzinger in 1985 in Lugano: ‚If I look now at the great and faithful masters, from Möhler to Newman, Scheeben, Rosmini, Guardini, or in our days, to de Lubac, Congar, Balthasar, how current is their word compared to that of those whose community subject of the Church has disappeared’… [for him the community subject is collegiality and ecumenism], it is a contribution to the program of intellectual charity… ‚The divine in nature’, is the title of a work by Rosmini. The Second Vatican Council also speaks of ‚seeds of the divine’ in man.‟ [This is the Gnostic thesis, for which man is a divine spark and not a pure creature].

„Benedict XVI and the courage to open up to the breadth of religion… In the lesson he gave in Regensburg, a magical moment in the history of German university, Pope Benedict XVI again highlighted the synthesis between faith and reason… It is not a question of whether God exists or not, but of the clear refusal of his presence.‟ [In the language of the Church, the word magic is used only as the work of the devil and here they are making a revolution in language.]

„Saint Hildegard… the natural medicine of the saint and its direct application… also partly magic.‟

„The famous Regensburg lesson of Benedict XVI… Religion needs reason as a coordinating principle, possibly a purifying one.‟

„The invitation of Benedict XVI to a ‚broadening of our concept of reason and its use’. (Regensburg, 12.09.2006). The Christian faith cannot renounce philosophy, but it cannot let itself be guided by an autonomous philosophy closed to novelty.‟

„History is moving towards a humanity united in Christ, it is thus moving towards the perfect man, towards the perfect humanism‟ [[This is the triumph of Maritain’s „Integral Humanism‟, which Father Garrigou-Lagrange calls „Integral Naturalism‟].]

„Evolution and creation do not present the slightest opposition between them, on the contrary they reveal themselves to be completely complementary… the species of homo sapiens appears at the end of an immense evolutionary process of which we are beginning to discover some secrets.‟

„A non-literal reading of the Old and New Testament biblical texts may contain perspectives, from a certain point of view, that are evolutionist.‟

„The whole cosmos today rejoices, enveloped in the springtime of humanity.‟

„It is not necessary to bother divine causality to supply or guide directly the changes of nature, as the theory of Intelligent Design supports.‟

Pope Benedict XVI subjects all the bishops of the Synod to indoctrination on evolutionism held by Prof. Werner Arber, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

2005 Pope Benedict XVI to the Spanish bishops, O.R. 23.05.2005:

„That the religious freedom and freedom of conscience of each person be respected.‟

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 14.11.2005:

The Church in Italy and in every country does not intend to claim for itself any privilege… in respect for the legitimate secularism of the State.

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 25.06.2005:

A healthy secularism of the State is legitimate, by virtue of which temporal realities are regulated according to rules proper to them.

2006: Pope Benedict XVI to the Catholic Jurists, O.R. 09.12.2006:

„It is the task of all believers, and in particular of the believers of Christ, to contribute to the elaboration of a concept of secularism which on the one hand recognizes God, his moral law, Christ and his Church the place that is theirs in human life, individual and social, and on the other hand respects the legitimate autonomy of earthly realities… as the Second Vatican Council repeats… Gaudium et spes… Such an autonomy is a legitimate requirement which is not only postulated by the men of our time, but it is also in conformity with the will of the Creator [sic]… This conciliar affirmation constitutes the doctrinal basis of this ‚healthy secularism’ which implies the effective autonomy of earthly realities… It cannot however be for the Church to say which political or social order is preferable [sic]… This also implies that for each religious Confession - provided that it is not in contradiction with the moral order and dangerous for the public order - the exercise of freedom of worship be guaranteed.‟

Pope Benedict XVI to the President of the Italian Republic, O.R. 20.11.2006:

As the Second Vatican Council taught with authority concerning the right to religious freedom, no one can be forced to act against his own conscience, nor prevented from acting in conformity with it… The Church is not and does not want to be a political agent… The lay faithful… they do so on the contrary in the context and according to the rules of democratic coexistence.

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 20.10.2006:

As I wrote in the encyclical ‚Deus Caritas est’, no. 28-29, on the relationship between religion and politics, Jesus Christ brought an essential novelty that opened the way to a more human and freer world, through the distinction and reciprocal autonomy between the State and the Church… The Church is therefore not and does not want to be a political agent.

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 20.02.2006:

Indeed, an authentic democracy requires a consensus on a certain number of essential values such as the transcendent dignity of the human person, the respect for human rights [What are human rights? Today, they are those of liberalism!], the common good, as the end and criterion of regulation of political life.„ [This is what Pope Ratzinger means in the dialogue with Habermas on self-limitation (v. Doc. Rév. in L’Église no.6, p.15)]

Osservatore Romano Editorial 11.02.2006, anniversary of the Concordat between the Roman Pontiff Pius XI and H.E.B. Mussolini:

With John Paul II came to maturity [sic] the process of revision of the Lateran Pacts… As we know, he harmonized the provisions of 1929 with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council… It is here that the notion of healthy secularism of the State is rooted, that is, of an authentic secularism… as Benedict XVI has pointed out with extreme clarity…

2007 Pope Benedict XVI in Brazil, O.R. 14.05.2007:

This political work is not the immediate competence of the Church. The respect for a healthy secularism, including the plurality of political positions, is essential in the Christian tradition [sic].

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 08.01.2007:

An authentic integral humanism. … that we may know how to work for the construction of an integral humanism which alone [sic] can ensure a peaceful, just and solidary world.

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 14.02.2007:

The natural law is, ultimately, the only valid bulwark.

Follo at UNESCO, O.R. 27.10.2007:

An integral humanism… religious freedom, still includes the freedom to profess and practice one’s faith publicly.

Card. Tarcisio Bertone, O.R. 24.10.2007:

Religious freedom, a milestone of the new Europe… The Declaration Dignitatis humanae… helps to build a new Europe.

2008 Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 12.12.2008:

Human rights are, ultimately, founded in God the Creator.

Which human rights? Those of the liberal Revolution? In fact, Benedict XVI extols the United States. See the articles below.

Pope Benedict XVI, to the Ambassador of the United States, extols the use of religion to promote the democratic Revolution, O.R. 01.03.2008:

From the beginning of the Republic, America has been a nation that has appreciated the role of religious creed as a guarantee of a vibrant and ethically sound democratic order. The example of your nation that brings together people of good will, regardless of creed… has encouraged many younger nations… Today this task has become an urgent priority for the whole human family… I trust that your Country… will continue to… be the model within the international community.

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 01.05.2008:

I had the opportunity to pay tribute to this great Country [USA] … a valid example of healthy secularism, where the religious dimension, in the diversity of its expressions, is not only tolerated, but valued as the soul of the Nation and fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of man… the Declaration of Human Rights, Providence has given me the opportunity to confirm in the largest and most authoritative supranational assembly, the value of this Charter [sic].

Pope Benedict XVI to the Diplomatic Corps, O.R. 07.01.2008:

Our society has rightly highlighted the greatness and dignity of the human person in various declarations of Right, which have been formulated from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [sic].

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 07.06.2008:

We must welcome ‚the true achievements of the Enlightenment.’

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 14.11.2008:

These are the conditions of this ‚healthy’ secularism of different religions.

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 18.9.2008:

Authentic secularism the autonomy of earthly realities.

Pope Benedict XVI, the Church must learn from heretics. O.R. 09.12.2008:

It is necessary to make people accept not only the existence of the culture of the other, but that they also wish to receive an enrichment from it.

Pope Francis will then speak of „receptive ecumenism‟ (O.R. 22.01.2022), but there we see that the master was Benedict XVI.

„Mr. President, the beautiful expression of positive secularism (laïcité).‟

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 19.04.2008:

The disciples of all religions can unite to defend and promote life and religious freedom throughout the world.

Osservatore Romano, 1st page, 21.04.2008:

A Catholicism which, in its turn, supported Benedict XVI as he himself declared on the radio: ‚I must say that American Catholics are confirming me in my faith.’

What „faith‟? The liberal faith!

Card. Ruini, O.R. 05.12.2008:

Benedict XVI… finds, from his Christian and liberal foundation, his own identity.

There are many other Catholic-liberal speeches by Benedict XVI in America: see Doc. Rév. In the Church year 2008.

Osservatore Romano, 1st page, 16.04.2008:

The United States, a model of positive secularism. This is how Benedict XVI defined the United States.

Roberto de Mattei, O.R. 17.04.2008:

The American way to Catholicism… a providential mission, which springs from the same American Constitution… The United States has the mission of realizing the harmony between the Church and the State, between religious principles and political principles. Brownson’s vision is not however confessional. In the United States the state religion… the separation between Church and State is not a separation of the principles on which they are founded. [But yes, ask them and you will see that they are liberal in principle] It is a question of organizing the State according to the principles of the Church, without sanctioning in the legal plan any alliance whatsoever between the Church and the State. This can be realized at the level of the natural law.

2009 Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 02.02.2009:

„It is up to the State to effectively ensure to citizens and religious communities the freedom of worship and religious freedom…, whatever their religion.‟

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 09.05.2009:

„Religious freedom is certainly a fundamental human right… in every part of the world.‟

Card. Paul Josef Cordes, denies that there is a third way between liberal capitalism and Marxism. O.R. 08.07.2009:

The first encyclical of Benedict XVI ‚Deus caritas est’… this implies that the social doctrine of the Church is not a third way, that is, a political program to be realized.

Card. Bagnasco CEI, O.R. 21.9.2009:

The Pope: ‚the Church has no technical solutions to offer and does not claim in any way to meddle in the politics of States’.

In a single week, Benedict XVI quotes a text that criticizes Muhammad, then he apologizes twice to the Muslims and ends by blessing them, after they themselves, in that same week, to take revenge, killed a nun and burned churches. What will the popes of Vatican II do in the face of the current Islamic invasion?

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 18.09.2006:

I am truly saddened by the reactions aroused by a brief passage of my speech at the University of Regensburg, considered offensive to the sensitivity of Muslim believers, when it was a quotation from a medieval text that in no way expresses my personal thought.

Pope Benedict XVI continues to apologize to Muslims before the Diplomatic Corps, O.R. 21.09.2006:

I did not in any way want to make my own the negative words spoken by the medieval emperor in this dialogue, and their polemical content does not express my personal conviction.

The Pope blesses Muslims, O.R. 25.09.2006:

At the moment when, for Muslims, the spiritual journey of the month of Ramadan begins, I address to all of them my cordial wishes, wishing that the Almighty may grant them a serene and peaceful life. May the God of peace fill you with the abundance of his blessings, as well as the communities you represent.

Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI lets Prof. Ali Bardakoğlu say in his presence that Christ is a prophet, on the same level as Muhammad. 30.11.2006:

From Adam to Noah, from Abraham to Moses, from Christ to Muhammad, these prophets were the precursors of the call to peace, love and wisdom.

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 04.05.2009:

Human rights… These rights have been ratified by almost all the States of the world. Vatican II, in the declaration Dignitatis humanae, and my predecessors Paul VI and John Paul II have strongly referred to the rights concerning freedom of conscience and religion, central rights that emanate from human nature itself.„

And then they complain that globalism instead of ‚positive secularism’ imposes the right to abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, gender, etc… See chapters VI and VII on „lamentations‟.

2009: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Card. Kasper proposes to bring the Enlightenment to the Orthodox, O.R. 05.09.2009:

Backward Orientals… whom we must help to pass into modernity. [They say that the Orthodox need a Vatican II]… In the East the ecumenical idea encounters, in many cases, strong reservations, not to say real oppositions. For some, ecumenism is an insult and a super heresy.„ [It is true that they are schismatic and heretical but they have understood that: ‟ecumenism is an insult and a super heresy.„]

Card. Tauran wishes for the secularization of Hinduism, O.R. 17.10.2009:

Dear Hindu friends, … Respect for others, and therefore the recognition of their freedom: freedom of conscience, of thought and of religion.

Abderrazak Sayadi. The Vatican scandalizes Islam by denying the superiority of the rights of God over human rights, O.R. 13.03.2009:

The third motivation, represented by the position of Saudi Arabia, is religious. It considers that Divine Law is superior to human law and that the law of God, as fixed by the ulemas in the sharia, is superior to the law of man… These hold that these texts are always current. They are divine and therefore always remain valid, at all times and in all places… That of freedom of conscience is an old debate… This passes through the unreserved acceptance of freedom of thought, freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.„ [‟Freedom of conscience‟ is the philosophy of Freemasonry].

Francesco Ruperto O.R. 01.03.2009:

It must be totally excluded that one can proceed to an alliance, an Islamo-Christian front, against the secular elements of the respective societies… to discover secularism. Christians ‚are the greatest defenders of secularism’.

The ‚Christians’ of Vatican II, yes, but the popes before Vatican II, who condemned the secularism of the State, ‚are the greatest defenders’ of the social Kingship of Jesus Christ.

Michel Cuypers, O.R. 13.07.2009:

Some [Muslims] modernists are willingly called ‚the Luther of Islam… new exegesis of the Quran… it places the modernist Muslims at the margins of the general current of Islam.

2010 Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of the World Day of Peace, O.R. 17.12.2010:

„To renew the commitment for the construction of a world where all are free to profess their own religion… the right to religious freedom is a condition of the moral legitimacy of any social and legal norm, religious freedom is, in this sense, also an achievement of political and legal civilization… To direct societies towards universal ethical principles… unfortunately still neglected or contested by the ‚Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ of 1948. … Religious fundamentalism and secularism are two extreme forms, similar and opposite of refusal of legitimate pluralism… Peace is the fruit of a process of purification… in which human dignity is fully respected.

Pope Benedict XVI in London O.R. 19.09.2010:

„The Catholic Tradition holds that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, abstracting from the content of Revelation… These distortions of religion emerge when not enough attention is paid to the purifying and structural role of reason within religion itself.‟

Benedict XVI in London doctrinally establishes „positive secularism‟ and thus denies the social Kingship of Jesus Christ. Monsignor Lefebvre in his book: „They have uncrowned him‟ denounces the error of affirming that reason, in the rules of politics and society, does not need Revelation.

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 18.01.2010:

„In this regard… the Agreement of Villa Madama, [‚Agreement’ which suppressed the Catholic religion as the state religion of Italy] which fix the coordinates of a just balance of relations between the State and the Church… My appreciation to the Italian Government which in this regard has acted in conformity with the correct vision of secularism.‟

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 11.01.2010:

It is therefore urgent to define a positive, open secularism, which, founded on a just autonomy of the temporal order and the spiritual order… Jerusalem… whose value is universal… anticipation of the peace that God desires for the whole human family.

2010: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Card. Bertone O.R. 24.11.2010:

Religious freedom has marked the overcoming of religious tolerance which expressed a vision in relation to the truth.

2011 Pope Benedict XVI to the German Parliament, very important text. O.R. 24.09.2011:

„For the development of law… it was decisive that Christian theologians took a position against religious law, claimed by faith in divinities, that they placed themselves on the side of philosophy, recognizing as a valid legal source for all reason and nature in their correlation.‟

Pope Benedict XVI makes himself a missionary for the right of all religions, O.R. 16.05.2011:

„To protect the fundamental human rights that are the freedom of religion and the freedom of worship… The Catholic Church strives to promote these rights for all religions throughout the world.‟

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 05.05.2011:

„Aware of the developments in culture and society, the Second Vatican Council proposed a new anthropological foundation for religious freedom.‟ [„A new foundation‟… here too it is the „hermeneutic of rupture‟ with the previous magisterium.]

Pope Benedict XVI to the Diplomatic Corps they encourage teaching in schools of freedom of conscience, of the democracy that derives from it and of human rights, then they complain that abortion is now becoming a human right. See chapter XVI on lamentations. O.R. 10.01.2011:

„I encourage to accompany the full safeguard of religious freedom and human rights with programs that, from primary school and in the context of religious teaching, educate to respect all brothers in humanity… The Christian communities… have strongly contributed to the conquest of democratic institutions and to the affirmation of human rights.‟

Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 31.10.2011:

„It is up to the State to guarantee the possibility of worship to all religious confessions.‟

2011 Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Osservatore Romano, 29.05.2011:

Even the saints made the unity of Italy.

2011: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Sergio Pagano lets believe that the worst Italian Freemason Cavour, excommunicated, would have made an implicit retraction before dying and would have confessed, O.R. 20.04.2011:

Found in the Vatican Secret Archives, an unpublished letter on the confession at the moment of the death of Count Camillo Benso di Cavour… Pius IX, however, did not accept such a version of the facts.

Osservatore Romano, 29.04.2011:

The Pope who unites the Americans… John Paul II… has left an indelible mark on the spirit and thought of the American people.

This is why Muslims persecute Christians, because they have seen the Pope support the United States.

Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi, writes the editorial of the Osservatore Romano, as if it were a review of all religions. O.R. 09.12.2011:

The market economy is profoundly consistent with the values set forth in the Jewish Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing… The birth of the modern economy is inseparable from its Judeo-Christian roots.

„Inseparable‟ from Jewish roots, yes: usury, international financial capitalism etc. While the Church has rather condemned usury.

Andrea Possieri, the communists praise the Catholic liberal leader De Gasperi, O.R. 19.08 2011:

Christian democracy… as an ‚American party’… precisely by a revision of the figure of Togliatti [leader of the Italian Communist Party] and of his relationship with De Gasperi… stressed how much De Gasperi and Togliatti were the two, despite the inevitable diversities, ‚the fathers of the fatherland’… In 1974… ‚L’Unità’ revises its judgment on him… in l’Unità, stresses how much De Gasperi and Togliatti, although ‚adversaries’ had ‚together’ built the ‚bases of this republic’ and appeared as the true ‚fathers of modern Italy’.

In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI in Lebanon speaks against the superiority of the Catholic religion, openly denies Catholic religious tolerance and praises liberal religious freedom:

Pope Benedict, officially declares himself for the equality of religions. O.R. 16.09.2012:

Only then can good understanding between cultures and religions grow, esteem for one another, without a sense of superiority and in respect for the right of each of them… These values belong to the rights of every human being. In the affirmation of their existence the various religions make a decisive contribution… The so-called tolerance does not eliminate discrimination, sometimes it even reinforces it… Religious freedom has a social political dimension indispensable to peace.

Pope Benedict XVI on leaving Lebanon, O.R. 17.09.2012:

„The communion between all its inhabitants, whatever their community and their religion… May God bless you all.‟

Pope Benedict XVI, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of „Pacem in terris‟, O.R. 30.04.2012:

The order established by God of a world in which the dignity of every human person receives the respect that is due to it, can bear fruit, and will certainly bear fruit.

So the „order established by God‟ is the liberal order, the naturalism of „Pacem in terris‟ where for the first time and in a very lucid way, everything is founded on human rights and exclusively on human nature.

Pope Benedict XVI, O.R. 26.11.2012:

Jesus knows… that the kingdom of God is of a completely different kind, … and not of a political kingdom.

There is no Catholic politics, nor Christian laws, nor Christian law, etc… The historical Christian society has no politics, nor law, nor Christian laws?

Pope Benedict XVI „Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Church in the Middle East, O.R. 14.09.2012:

Such a healthy secularism guarantees politics to work without instrumentalizing religion… So healthy secularism is necessary and even indispensable for both parties… Religious freedom is the summit of all freedoms. It is a sacred and inalienable right… …It is therefore necessary to pass from tolerance to religious freedom. This passage is not a door open to relativism, as some affirm.

These „some‟ are all the Popes before Vatican II.

2012: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Card. Angelo Scola, O.R. 07.12.2012:

The just and necessary a-confessionalism

2012: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Osservatore Romano, 16.02.2012:

Promote religious freedom and freedom of conscience

Except in Israel as he teaches Kurt Koch, O.R. 08.11.2012: „Israel… a state that perceives itself decidedly as Jewish.‟

2012: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Mgr. Tomasi at the UN in Geneva, O.R. 14.07.2012:

The Delegation of the Holy See… It invites all States to put into practice the clauses of the Declaration for the Elimination of all forms of Intolerance and Discrimination, emanating from Religion or Creed.

And then they complain that the States eliminate the conscientious objection of Catholics against anti-Christian laws.

2012: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Lucetta Scaraffia, in this very important editorial article, highlights the change of doctrine. 15.06.2012:

The Popes of the 19th century condemned the Declaration of 1789 on human rights… Freedom of conscience, which will only be welcomed by John XXIII in his encyclical ‚Pacem in terris’ of 1963.„

Finally they admit what the ‚prince’ of Vaticanists, Zizola, a socialist, had already said: „No pope has reached the charism of John XXIII.‟

2007: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Card. Bertone, O.R. 30.05.2007:

With the encyclical ‚Deus caritas est’… The West, in crisis because of its remoteness from the civil values that founded it, liberty, equality, fraternity Benedict XVI offers a way out… To build a tower.„ […of Babel]

2010 Pope Benedict XVI to the Ambassador of Hungary, O.R. 03.12.2010:

One certainly does not expect from the State that it impose a determined religion, it should rather guarantee the freedom of confession and the practice of faith… Fraternity, in a certain sense, is the other aspect of freedom and equality.„

This is the „hermeneutic of continuity‟ with Masonic doctrine.

2010: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Card. Tauran, O.R. 7.8.2010:

Three words as a guiding thread for his work: freedom, equality, but above all fraternity. John Paul II, in 1980 said: ‚at bottom, liberty, equality and fraternity are Christian ideas… In schools one should begin by teaching children to respect differences, and there religions have a decisive role.’

2010: Pope Benedict XVI O.R. 06.06.2010:

To found positive law on the ethical principles of the natural law. … but the wave of positivism in contemporary legal doctrine requires that one reaffirm this important axiom.

2011 Pope Benedict XVI, for globalism: the pope wants a public authority with universal competence. O.R. 24.10.2011:

For a reform of the international monetary and financial system, in the perspective of a public authority with universal competence… The blessed John XXIII, in his prophetic encyclical ‚Pacem in terris’… wished for the creation of ‚a world public Authority’ (no. 71-74)… Benedict XVI has, for his part, manifested the need for a World Political Authority (Caritas in veritate, no. 67).

2010: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Mgr. Fisichella, O.R. 29.10.2010:

In Europe… one has the impression that in this process of unification everything is already decided and determined by an elite of people… A Europe independent of Christianity and, in some cases, even against. [and yet they do not want to officially declare the ‚anti-Christian plot’] The secularism, of which we are all jealous [we are not], is none other than the application of the word of the Lord ‚give to Caesar’.

The popes and bishops, with Vatican II, made doctrinal compromises with liberalism, but the liberals marginalized them and progressively persecuted them. The problem of the popes of Vatican II is and will always be the same: to accept or believe in the principles of the liberal Revolution. The popes before Vatican II had understood and denounced liberalism, but it is precisely Card. Ratzinger who introduces the ideas „of modernity‟ into the Church.

Card. Ratzinger declares it officially and with authority in the famous interview with the magazine Jesus (Nov. 1984): „Yes, the problem of the sixties was to acquire the better expressed values of two centuries of liberal culture‟ (liberty, equality, fraternity.) This is the spirit of Benedict XVI.

2011 Pope Benedict XVI to the Ambassador of Austria, O.R. 4.2.2011:

The political authorities are very careful not to concede public spaces to religions.

2011: Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Card. Bagnasco Speech of introduction to the Permanent Council of the CEI, O.R. 24.01.2011:

It is Christianophobia… subtle threats are made against an effective religious freedom. They also exist in countries with a democratic tradition, starting with those of Europe… There is a secularist aggressiveness. A subtle evil, in fact, is afflicting Europe, causing a slow and underground marginalization of Christianity.

Bruno Bouvet, O.R. 17.01.2011:

In an agenda of the Brussels Commission… Europe denies its Christian roots… In the 2010-2011 edition various religious holidays related to Judaism, Islam and Hinduism are cited, but Christian religious holidays are not reported in this agenda… One does not accept the Europe of bell towers.

Today the Revolution attacks this same modernist Church in an operational, orchestrated way in favor of secularist secularism, (v. O.R. 04.02.2011).

Osservatore Romano, 04.02.2011:

Democratic societies still do not manage to understand appropriately the debt they have to the Christian heritage. [Can they not? Or do they not want to?]… To the fathers (conciliar) escaped two explosive dimensions of modernity: science and subjectivist individualism. … The fathers of Vatican II neglected the most virulent aspects of modernity.

It is officially declared that ‚the fathers of Vatican II’ were therefore incapable: ‚To the fathers (conciliar) escaped’… and negligent: ‚neglected’. The worst, however, is that the popes persist in introducing ever more deeply and precisely the errors of liberalism into the Church.

2010 „Lineamenta‟ for the Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops O.R. 20.01.2010:

„The emigration of Christians… today, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has intensified… The conflictual political situation between Palestinians and the Arab world on the one hand and Israel on the other. Too often our countries identify the West with Christianity.

This is a plan aimed at increasing the hostility of Muslim immigration towards Christians in Europe.

Patriarch Antonios Naguib O.R. 18.10.2010. However, he extols here the sum of modernist errors:

Christians must favor positive secularism… Religious freedom is an essential component of human rights… The Catholic and Orthodox Churches… and Benedict XVI speak of ‚practically complete communion’… The ‚purification of memory’, … To propose a new form of the exercise of the primacy… what unites us and brings peace rather than what divides us… We must abandon the logic of defense of the rights of Christians and commit ourselves for the good of all… It is necessary to purify school books of all prejudice about the other. Riches of the Old Testament… inculturation… freedom of expression… unity in diversity… in the light of the Second Vatican Council… Beyond the divergences of thought… in an ecumenical interreligious perspective… the interest of the New Evangelization.

Mgr. F.J. Melki, secularize the Muslims. O.R. 23.10.2010:

To establish in the Islamic states, in which they live, a ‚positive secularism’.

This is the thesis of Benedict XVI O.R. 23.12.2006:

In a dialogue to be intensified with Islam, we must bear in mind the fact that the Muslim world today is urgently facing a task very similar to that which was imposed on Christians since the time of the Enlightenment and which the Second Vatican Council… has led to concrete solutions for the Catholic Church.

Thank you again for confirming to the traditionalists what Vatican II was.

Mgr. Athanas Matti Shaba Matoka, archbishop of Baghdad, O.R. 20.10.2010:

„The American occupation… the invasion of Iraq by America and its allies has brought to Iraq in general, and to the Christians in particular, destruction and ruin, at all levels. Churches have been blown up… bishops, priests and laity have been massacred, many have been attacked… In Iraq Christianity is experiencing a continuous hemorrhage. We want to sound an alarm bell. We ask a question to the great powers: what is true in what is said concerning a plan to empty the Middle East of Christians and of the fact that Iraq would be a victim of it?‟

Mgr. M.G. Sliwa, Metropolitan of Baghdad, O.R. 17.10.2010:

„To understand what is behind all this… what is happening in our Country.‟

Mgr. Edmond Farhat, archbishop of Byblos (Lebanon); O.R. 17.10.2010:

The non-resolution of the conflict between Israel and Palestine… The egoism of the great powers. It is like a living organ that has undergone a transplant that it cannot assimilate (the State of Israel). The Muslim Middle East is revolting… it accuses the Christians… of being accomplices of the imperialist powers… Priests, religious and faithful assassinated… they are easy prey.

Card. John Patrick Foley, O.R. 14.10.2010:

„I am convinced that the continual tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have contributed largely to the disorders in the whole Middle East [it is to be noted that there is a desired ‚continuity’, created and maintained that provokes the emigration of Christians, see below O:R: 14.10.2010] and also to the growth of Islamic fundamentalism… The more time passes, the more the solution to such a problem becomes difficult, because the realization of occupations and infrastructures under Israeli control in East Jerusalem and in other parts of the West Bank, makes the development of a Palestinian state ever more difficult.

Mgr. P.Y. Matar, archbishop of the Maronites of Beirut, O.R. 14.10.2010:

The responsibility of the western powers. They have committed injustices and historical errors [sought and foreseen] against the Middle East… against the Palestinian people.

Gregory III, Laham, Patriarch of the Melkite Greeks, archbishop of Damascus, O.R. 14.10.2010:

The main cause is the Israel-Palestine conflict: the fundamentalist movements Hamas and Hezbollah are its consequences… The emigration of Christians is among the most dangerous consequences of the conflict… What will an exclusively Muslim Arab society do?