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What Is Benedict's Main Legacy? Francis

PillarCatholic.com (January 2) writes the most significant legacy of Benedict XVI is Francis. Highlights.

• It’s improbable Benedict liked Francis’ Traditionis custodes but he never dissented from it.

• The timing of Benedict’s resignation suggest he made the decision in full awareness of what could follow, and he chose to do it anyway.

• He could have delayed his resignation only for a few months and 10 of the 117 voting cardinals, including several anti-Catholic figures [e.g. Cardinal Kasper], would have turned 80 losing the right to participate in the conclave.

• The list of the 2013 electors [67 of 115 appointed by Benedict] may lead to the conclusion that only that conclave could have produced Francis, due to Benedict’s resignation at that exact time.

• Two months before announcing his resignation, Benedict received a [never released] voluminous dossier on "Vatican [homosex] lobbies" prepared by a special investigation committee. Some believe Benedict decided to resign that day, after concluding he was unable to clean out bad actors from the curia.

• In retirement, Benedict kept a low profile and constantly affirmed his "loyalty" to Francis. Rare public interventions were pointedly in support of Francis.

• Francis was not an infrequent visitor to Benedict.

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Orthocat
It's all very mysterious to me. If Benedict really supported Francis' radical agenda - why didn't he just implement it himself? I'm sure it's common knowledge (I think it was even discussed in some book I read about recent papal elections) that the St. Gallen mafia tried to get Francis elected in 2005 after the death of John Paul II. They failed. I recall I was even shocked that Benedict was chosen …More
It's all very mysterious to me. If Benedict really supported Francis' radical agenda - why didn't he just implement it himself? I'm sure it's common knowledge (I think it was even discussed in some book I read about recent papal elections) that the St. Gallen mafia tried to get Francis elected in 2005 after the death of John Paul II. They failed. I recall I was even shocked that Benedict was chosen since so many in the media cast shade on him. No, I believe Benedict was somehow coerced into resigning - hence the whole 'Pope emeritus' thing to save face. The Pillar article seems to think everything he did was done in complete freedom. I have my doubts.
V.R.S.
True.
They have also the common legacy with JPII-weluvU namely: Holocaust Industry Franchise.
See e.g.:
Pope Calls Holocaust Denial Intolerable And Unacceptable
Revelations in Rome as Jewish leaders meet the popeMore
True.

They have also the common legacy with JPII-weluvU namely: Holocaust Industry Franchise.
See e.g.:
Pope Calls Holocaust Denial Intolerable And Unacceptable
Revelations in Rome as Jewish leaders meet the pope
Wilma Lopez shares this
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Benedict’s most important legacy is Francis
Wilma Lopez
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
Benedict XVI didn't mean for this to happen. I think when he retired, he expected a good Pope to be chosen....not a heretic. He trusted people to much.
Malki Tzedek
What we've left behind (our legacies) will be ultimately less important than the future we get to embrace.
Laura Yunque
We must accept that Benedict did harm the Church and took actions and held beliefs that were contrary to the Traditional Teaching of the Church. To deny this is to deny Truth. We also must pray for his soul and that repented of these errors. Death and judgement are serious business. Judgement is not based upon how much we may like him. The Pope is responsible for upholding the Catholic Faith. …More
We must accept that Benedict did harm the Church and took actions and held beliefs that were contrary to the Traditional Teaching of the Church. To deny this is to deny Truth. We also must pray for his soul and that repented of these errors. Death and judgement are serious business. Judgement is not based upon how much we may like him. The Pope is responsible for upholding the Catholic Faith. Ratzinger and V2 tried to change it by his own admission. How God judged this, no one can say, but we must not put our heads in the sand because that isn't charity. Nor is it charity to condemn him. However, we must cease and desist from the habit of canonizing the dead. Pray for him.
Seabass
Anyone who reads and understands Quo Primum (as surely the late 'master theologian' Benedict did) knows that Summorum Pontificum was not even necessary. Benedict was a textbook example of what controlled opposition looks like. Link to Quo Primum:
Quo Primum - Papal EncyclicalsMore
Anyone who reads and understands Quo Primum (as surely the late 'master theologian' Benedict did) knows that Summorum Pontificum was not even necessary. Benedict was a textbook example of what controlled opposition looks like. Link to Quo Primum:

Quo Primum - Papal Encyclicals
Hugh N. Cry
Yes, my sentiments exactly. I likened this whole situation to a father who abandoned his spouse and children, and an abuser stepped in. Maybe all of this is due to my personal sins (including omission) with those of the whole world? Maybe this was the consequence of it and inline with prophecy?
Agatha James
God is permitting this. And my sins are a reason.
Wilma Lopez
According to the Vatican Gendarmerie, by 2pm today (Rome-time) an estimated 40,000 faithful & pilgrims had come to pay their respects & bid farewell to Pope Benedict XVI in St Peter's Basilica. Here is a shot of the line entering the Vatican basilica this morning.
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
That's very impressive, because for all of yesterday, there were almost 70,000. That makes over 100,000 in two days. And there's still Wednesday to go. Liberals in the Church during Benedict's time labeled him strict, severe, aloof. But the people in Rome loved him.... compared to the fact that they hate Pope Francis and his agenda.
The Vatican expected only 30,000 people to visit yesterday. They …More
That's very impressive, because for all of yesterday, there were almost 70,000. That makes over 100,000 in two days. And there's still Wednesday to go. Liberals in the Church during Benedict's time labeled him strict, severe, aloof. But the people in Rome loved him.... compared to the fact that they hate Pope Francis and his agenda.
The Vatican expected only 30,000 people to visit yesterday. They got nearly 70,000. They stated they expect less than 60,000 for the funeral. I pray, hope, and would like to see the entire Piazza di San Pietro literally packed and going all the way down Via delle Concilazione, like the funeral of JPII. Francis and his trolls would be devastated. It would be a huge slap in the face to Francis, and his agenda (which by the way, people in Italy hate with a passion).
Lisi Sterndorfer
Wilma Lopez
Another point from the article,
“Paradoxically, invoking Benedict as an obstacle for his successor, or even a limit on his freedom to lead the Church, became a kind of rhetorical device for liberals to criticize Francis when the two men were inconveniently in agreement.”