… The Holy See has given official confirmation that next October 27, in Assisi, Benedict XVI will preside over a day of «reflection, dialogue and prayer» … And he has already made it known that, with him as pope, the next encounter in Assisi will be reviewed and corrected, scrubbed clean of the slightest hint of the assimilation of the Catholic Church to other faiths. But all the same, the traditionalists are not forgiving him for this. …
Sandro Magister skrev for noen dager siden om flere tradisjonalisters skuffelse over pave Benedikt (les om det her), og hovedproblemet deres er at han forsvarer alle dokumentene fra Vatikankonsilet – men kristiserer ganske grundig deler av utviklinga etter konsilet. For flere tradisjonalister kritiserer også selve konsilet; selve dokumentene, eller (helst) helheten i det som skjedde under konsilet (dvs. hva mange biskoper ønsket (og klarte) å gjøre ved å få vedtatt mange nokså upresise dokumenter). Slik skriver Magister (men les gjerne hele artikkelen):
The pope errs – in their view – when he limits his criticism to the deterioration of the postcouncil. Vatican II, in fact – again, in their view – was not only poorly interpreted and applied: it was itself a source of errors, the first of which was the renunciation of the Church’s authority to exercise, when necessary, a magisterium of definition and condemnation; the renunciation, that is, of the anathema, in exchange for dialogue. …
La meg bare gjøre det ganske klart at jeg ikke deler denne kritikken av vår pave.