The betrayal of Pope Benedict by Pope Francis

We had the opportunity to read some previews of Mgr Georg Gänswein's book 'Nothing but the truth. My life at the side of Benedict XVI" coming out now from PIEMME Press.

Basically it reconfirms what was anticipated in the interviews that have come out in recent days. To be read in full!

Benedict XVI only discovered the release of Traditionis Custodes by reading the Osservatore Romano, moreover:

"[...] on a personal level, he found a decisive change of course and considered it a mistake, since it put at risk the attempt at resolving the issue in peace that had been made fourteen years earlier. Benedict in particular considered it wrong to prohibit the celebration of Mass in the ancient rite in parish churches, as it is always dangerous to put a group of faithful in a corner, so as to make them feel persecuted and to inspire in them the feeling of having to safeguard their own identity at all costs in the face of the "enemy" [...]".

And again: "[...] the Pope Emeritus furrowed his brow at a statement [by Francis]: "Now I hope that with the decision to stop the automatism of the ancient rite, we can return to the true intentions of Benedict XVI and John Paul II. My decision is the fruit of a consultation with all the Bishops of the world made last year'. [...] As an expert on Vatican II, Benedict well remembered how the Council had insisted that "the use of the Latin language, except for particular claims, should be preserved in the Latin rites" (Sacrosanctum Concilium 36) and that all seminarians should acquire "that knowledge of the Latin language which is necessary for understanding and using the sources of so many sciences and the documents of the Church" (Optatam totius 13). [...]"

Monsignor Georg states that Benedict XVI insisted: "As is evident in his writings, particularly The Feast of Faith (1984) and Introduction to the Spirit of the Liturgy (2000), the theologian Ratzinger was initially in favour of liturgical reform: this theme was always among his favourites, since he considered it fundamental for the Catholic faith and it was not by chance that he wanted the first publication of his Opera Omnia to be the one dedicated to the liturgy, even though in the plan it was the eleventh volume. However, seeing the subsequent developments of that reform, he became aware of the differences between what Vatican II wanted and what was done by the Commission for the realisation of Sacrosanctum Concilium, [...] Based on this awareness, with Summorum Pontificum he wanted to make it easier for a priest to celebrate with the ancient Rite, overcoming the need for reference to the diocesan bishop and granting competence to the "Ecclesia Dei" Commission. It remained clear to him, however, that there was only one Rite, albeit with the co-existence of the ordinary and the extraordinary. His only motivation was the desire to repair the great wound that had been created, whether voluntarily or involuntarily".

Bishop Georg reports that "It was not an operation carried out clandestinely, as some in bad faith have claimed. It was in fact the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that dealt with the text of the Motu proprio, with the involvement of the members of the fourth meeting and the plenary. [...] after its publication, he regularly asked the bishops, during ad limina visits, how the application of that legislation was proceeding in their dioceses, and always got a positive feeling.

That is why to Pope Ratzinger that reference to his 'true intentions' seemed incongruous, since, as we read in Light of the World, he had wanted to 'make the ancient form more easily accessible above all in order to preserve the deep and unbroken bond that exists in the history of the Church. We cannot say: everything was wrong before, everything is right now. In a community, in which prayer and the Eucharist are the most important things, what used to be considered the most sacred thing cannot be considered entirely wrong. It was about reconciliation with one's past, about the internal continuity of faith and prayer in the Church''.

An important point was the secrecy of the consultation on the Motu Proprio: "It remained mysterious even for Benedict why the results of the consultation of the bishops carried out by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which would have made it possible to understand more precisely every aspect of Pope Francis' decision, were not disclosed. Similarly, it was surprising, for all the work of analysis and in-depth study done previously, the transfer and splitting up of competence on the issue from the Doctrine of the Faith to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and to that for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life".

Benedict "

An important point was the secrecy of the consultation on the Motu Proprio: "It remained mysterious even for Benedict why the results of the consultation of the bishops carried out by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which would have allowed a more precise understanding of every aspect of Pope Francis' decision, were not disclosed. Similarly, it was surprising, for all the work of analysis and in-depth study done previously, the transfer and division of competence on the issue from the Doctrine of the Faith to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and to that for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Benedict "furrowed his brow" at Francis' statements to the Slovak Jesuits and "And even less appreciation was he given" to Francis' statements against Latin and, on the importance of the liturgy "it was not by chance that he wanted the first publication of his Opera Omnia to be the one dedicated to the liturgy, even though in the plan it was the eleventh volume".

Sounds very clear to us!

Luigi

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