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And yet the historical record is clear: whatever changes that Ratzinger’s thinking underwent during his long career, he always understood Vatican II reform as involving both continuity and discontinuity.
Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/the-conciliar-reform-was-real/
Given Ratzinger’s time in the German army, some opponents characterized him as the “Panzer Cardinal,” a strict disciplinarian for a recalcitrant church.
Source: https://www.delgazette.com/2023/03/22/story-behind-man-who-became-pope-benedict-xvi/
Indeed, Ratzinger’s retirement plan was to return to Germany, where he had a house where they would live with his older brother, also a priest, Georg, the three of them together.
Source: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/joseph-ratzinger-s-revealing-family-dynamic
Ratzinger’s scowling successors continue to hold the Church in their grasp.