DEDICATED TO “RATZINGERIAN WIDOWS”:
Here is yet another proof of Ratzingerian conciliar disaster, which admits continuity with Bergoglio and the difference in styles, as we have always supported, also in reference to others “occupants” up to Roncalli (N.d.r.)
Letter from Pope Benedict XVI on the eve of Bergoglio's fifth anniversary: “There is internal continuity between the two pontificates”
Of Sergio Rame
“There is an internal continuity between the two pontificates”. Il Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI defends the magisterium of Pope Francis of which, Tomorrow, the fifth year after the election will occur.
After months deeply marked by internal controversies and by doubts raised by several cardinals, Ratzinger himself is acting as a screen for Bergoglio and today he wrote a letter to the prefect of the Secretariat for communication, Monsignor Dario Viganò. “Pope Francis – we read in the letter – he is a man of profound philosophical and theological training and therefore helps to see the internal continuity between the two pontificates, despite all the differences in style and temperament”.
It is not the first time that Benedict XVI has shown harmony with Pope Francis. Today the opportunity comes from the presentation of the series The theology of Pope Francis (published by Lev), but it arrives on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the appointment of Pope Francis. In the letter Ratzinger openly applauds the editorial initiative which, according to him, “wants to oppose and react to the foolish prejudice according to which Pope Francis is just a practical man without any particular theological or philosophical training, while I would have been solely a theorist of theology who would have understood little about the concrete life of a Christian today”. In the personal letter sent to the prefect of the Secretariat for communication, the pope emeritus thanks having received the gift of the eleven books written by as many theology of international fame that make up the series edited by Don Roberto Repole, president of the Italian Theological Association. “Small volumes – adds Benedict XVI – they rightly show that Pope Francis is a man of profound philosophical and theological education and therefore help to see the internal continuity between the two pontificates, even with all the differences of style and temperament”.
Already in October 2015, as he remembers Vatican Insider, during a theological conference on doctrine of justification, which was held in Rome, the text of an interview with Ratzinger conducted by the Jesuit theologian Jacques Servais had been read by Archbishop Georg Gaenswein on “what faith is and how you come to believe”. On that occasion Benedict XVI had quoted Francis speaking at length about mercy. Not only that. He had also underlined that Bergoglio's pastoral practice “it is expressed precisely in the fact that he continually speaks to us about the mercy of Dio“.
Source: http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2018/03/12/ora-ratzinger-difende-papa-francesco-basta-stolti-pregiudizi-contro-di/1504310/