The Conciliar Sect’s Desperate Canonization Theater
Catholic News Agency portal reports (December 8, 2025) that Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary to Joseph Ratzinger (“Benedict XVI”), advocates accelerating the pseudo-beatification process for the German antipope. Gänswein—currently serving as “apostolic nuncio” to Baltic states—expressed hope that the five-year waiting period might be waived for his former master, despite Ratzinger having died on December 31, 2022. The article praises Ratzinger as a “theologian of joy” who allegedly never compromised on essentials, while simultaneously highlighting tensions between antipopes Francis and Leo XIV regarding the Traditional Latin Mass.
Canon Law Versus Conciliar Sainthood Factory
The very notion of beatifying Joseph Ratzinger exposes the conciliar sect’s fundamental rupture with Catholic ecclesiology. True beatification requires proof of heroic virtue and orthodoxy—standards Ratzinger demolished through:
- Active participation in Vatican II’s subversion of dogma (aggiornamento replacing depositum fidei)
- Co-authoring the modernist manifesto Gaudium et Spes which declared: “The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age…” (Art. 1), inverting the Church’s Christocentric mission into anthropocentric flattery
- Promulgating the 1983 Code of Canon Law that eliminated over 200 canons defending faith and morals
Pius XII unequivocally taught in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943): “For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.” Ratzinger’s theological oeuvre—from undermining the propitiatory nature of Mass to promoting false ecumenism—constitutes formal heresy, rendering him incapable of being a beatification candidate.
“Theologian of Joy” or Architect of Ecclesial Suicide?
“Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, is a theologian of joy… if faith does not lead to joy, something is not right in one’s life of faith.”
This saccharine reductionism epitomizes the conciliar sect’s amputatio veritatis (mutilation of truth). True Catholic joy springs from caritas in veritate (charity in truth), not emotional sentimentality. Consider:
- St. Teresa of Avila’s definition: “Joy is not in being without suffering, but in being united to the Will of God.“
- Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) grounded joy in Christ’s Kingship: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.“
Ratzinger’s “joy” produced:
- The Assisi abominations (1986, 2002, 2011) where pagan idols were honored
- Dominus Iesus (2000)—a failed attempt to contain ecumenical chaos he helped create
- Public support for Luther commemorations despite the heretic’s condemnation at Trent
“No Compromise on Essentials” — Except When Compromising
Gänswein’s claim that Ratzinger taught “we must not compromise on the essentials” is demonstrably false:
| Essential Doctrine | Ratzinger’s Action | Magisterial Condemnation |
|---|---|---|
| Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus | Wrote in Principles of Catholic Theology (1982): “There is no appropriate category in Catholic thought for the phenomenon of Protestantism today” | Pius IX, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore (1863): “Outside the Church, no one can hope for salvation” |
| Religious Liberty | Defended Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae as “organic development” | Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (1832): “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.” |
Ratzinger’s entire career embodied the Modernist principle condemned by Pius X in Lamentabili (1907): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but a kind of interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has laboriously fashioned.” (Proposition 22)
Traditional Latin Mass: Trojan Horse of Neo-Modernism
The article’s focus on liturgical tensions reveals the conciliar sect’s inability to comprehend sacramentality:
“I believe that Pope Benedict’s wise decision [Summorum Pontificum] was the right one, and this path should be continued without difficulty or restriction.”
Ratzinger’s 2007 indult was not restoration but cooptation:
- It maintained the invalid 1962 Missal—already compromised by Bugnini’s Holy Week alterations
- Reduced the Mass to a “form” disposable at will, contra Pius V’s Quo Primum (1570)
- Created artificial divisions between “ordinary” and “extraordinary” forms—a dichotomy unknown to Tradition
Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) rebukes such liturgical relativism: “The sacred liturgy does not include… merely the Mass, the administration of the sacraments… it is the public worship which our Redeemer as Head of the Church renders to the Father, as well as the worship which the community of the faithful renders to its Founder.” By treating liturgy as customizable ritual rather than lex orandi, lex credendi, Ratzinger perpetuated the very Modernism he pretended to oppose.
Theological Narcissism of Conciliar “Saints”
This beatification push follows the sect’s pattern of canonizing its own revolutionaries:
- John Paul II (“ecumenical gigolo” who kissed Korans)
- Paul VI (architect of the Novus Ordo destruction)
- Mother Teresa (ecumenical syncretist who denied Christ’s uniqueness)
Contrast this with true saintly criteria from Benedict XIV’s De Servorum Dei Beatificatione (1734-1738):
- Heroicitas virtutum (heroic virtue) — absent in figures promoting heresy
- Miracles through intercession — impossible for those dying outside the Church
- Orthodox doctrine — demolished by Ratzinger’s theological pandering
As St. Robert Bellarmine warned in De Romano Pontifice (II.30): “A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically ceases to be pope.” If antipopes can “beatify” other antipopes, the conciliar sect completes its metamorphosis into a self-referential parody of Catholicism.
Source:
Benedict XVI’s former secretary hopes the pope’s beatification process will open soon (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 08.12.2025