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The Coptic Catholic Bishop of Egypt says Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is now very weak at age 90 but still aware of everything.
Bishop Kyrillos William Simon of Assyria gave this report after a meeting with the Pope Emeritus at the beginning of September,
according to the Swiss Catholic information agency cath.ch, in an article published today.
On September 23rd, the German news website Mittelbayerische reported,
that Benedict is now too weak to celebrate Mass by himself.
Archbishop Gerhard Genswein, his private secretary, who is also prefect of the pontifical household, assists him.
Unquote.
Secondly, Benedict has written a preface for the Russian edition of his book Theology of the Liturgy.
And in this preface, he laments that God is being obscured in the modern Novus Ordo liturgy.
Here's what he says, quote,
In the years following,
the Second Vatican Council,
I became aware again of the priority of God and the divine liturgy.
The misunderstanding of the liturgical reform that has spread widely in the Catholic Church
has led to more and more emphasis on the aspect of education and its activity and creativity.
The doings of men almost completely obscured the presence of God.
In such a situation,
it became increasingly clear that the Church's existence lives in the proper celebration of the liturgy,
and that the Church is in danger when the primacy of God no longer appears in the liturgy, and so in life.
The deepest cause of the crisis that has upset the Church lies in the obscurity of God's priority in the liturgy.
Unquote.
Blah, blah, blah.
Ratzinger is shedding the same old crocodile tears about those oh-so-terrible abuses found in the misunderstood Novus Ordo,
when few people in the entire world are more to blame for it than his very self.
Ratzinger was the number two man in the Vatican from 1982 until 2005,
and the number one man from 2005 until 2013.
He could have done just about anything he wanted done during that time,
and look at what he did.
Ooh, he gave a little wider permission for the 1960s.
162 masks to be offered.
Big freaking deal.
You know what the same Joseph Ratzinger said in the 1985 interview book, The Ratzinger Report?
Here, let me quote it to you.
Page 125 of the Ignatius Press edition.
Quote,
It seems that certain abuses associated with the post-conciliar years are lessening.
It seems to me that a reconciliation is in process,
and some people are becoming aware that they went too far.
And too fast.
Unquote.
Well, I guess that speaks for itself.
So, Benedict is concerned that God has gotten eclipsed in the new church's liturgy and in life?
Gee, I wonder why that is.
Maybe that has something to do with his, Benedict's, false man-centered theology.
Maybe he should have had a great ceremony honoring Christ the King and Our Lady of Fatima
to obtain world peace instead of inviting every pagan, heretic, and schismatic
under the sun for an inter-religious prayer gathering in Assisi in 2011.
Maybe he shouldn't have approved a mass without a consecration on January 17th, 2001.
Maybe he shouldn't have endorsed Teilhard de Chardin's vision of a cosmic liturgy
on July 24th, 2009.
Maybe he shouldn't have blasphemed Christ in the Cologne Synagogue at World Youth Day 2005
when he said that he who encounters Christ encounters Judaism.
Maybe he shouldn't have paid his obeisance to the Talmudic Jews
at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in 2009.
Maybe he shouldn't have endorsed Hans Urs von Balthasar's call
for the raising of the Catholic bastions in his 1982 book, Principles of Catholic Theology.
And maybe he shouldn't have given Novus Ordo Communion
to the Swiss Protestant brother Roger Schutz at the funeral of John Paul II in 2005.
You think that all of these things help the teaching of Catholic theology?
Or to obscure the true faith and therefore the true God?
To ask the question is to answer it.
Folks, every so often the Vatican II modernists put on their sad face
and bewail how terrible things are in their church,
while at the same time it is they themselves who have done all in their power
to get it to this point.
Joseph Ratzinger is a master at it.
Do not fall for it.
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