I still recall my excitment when BXVI became pope 20 years ago. I thought of him at the time as JP2's doctrinal pitbull, keeping the modernist wolves of the Church at bay. He was really a moderate by today's standards as he attempted to both justify and mitigate the rupture of V2. His "ordinary and extraordinary form" distinctions of the…
I still recall my excitment when BXVI became pope 20 years ago. I thought of him at the time as JP2's doctrinal pitbull, keeping the modernist wolves of the Church at bay. He was really a moderate by today's standards as he attempted to both justify and mitigate the rupture of V2. His "ordinary and extraordinary form" distinctions of the Mass was akin to a Ford CEO telling us the 1974 Pinto was just as good as a 1967 Shelby and that we ought to buy the former if we have a choice. The bitter reality is that these were not only not forms of the same rite but reflected different Catholic religions.
Yes. I agree. What I tell everyone is that Ratzinger made me a traditionalist, but by that very fact, I had to go beyond his position, which to me seems like an impossible attempt to have the old religion and the new religion coexisting side-by-side. An understandable project but ultimately a self-contradictory one.
I still recall my excitment when BXVI became pope 20 years ago. I thought of him at the time as JP2's doctrinal pitbull, keeping the modernist wolves of the Church at bay. He was really a moderate by today's standards as he attempted to both justify and mitigate the rupture of V2. His "ordinary and extraordinary form" distinctions of the Mass was akin to a Ford CEO telling us the 1974 Pinto was just as good as a 1967 Shelby and that we ought to buy the former if we have a choice. The bitter reality is that these were not only not forms of the same rite but reflected different Catholic religions.
Yes. I agree. What I tell everyone is that Ratzinger made me a traditionalist, but by that very fact, I had to go beyond his position, which to me seems like an impossible attempt to have the old religion and the new religion coexisting side-by-side. An understandable project but ultimately a self-contradictory one.