Benedict XVI Foundation: Modernist Apotheosis of a Conciliar Architect
The VaticanNews portal (28 January 2026) announces the appointment of Roberto Regoli as president of the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Foundation, framing this neo-modernist institution as a legitimate heir to Catholic intellectual tradition. The article describes organizational changes within this structure occupying the Vatican, while promoting upcoming centenary celebrations for the conciliar “pope” Benedict XVI in 2027. This spectacle constitutes nothing less than the canonization of heresy through academic pageantry.
Ecclesial Legitimacy Granted to Apostate Structures
The Foundation operates under explicit approval from Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope” Leo XIV) and Pietro Parolin, both usurpers of ecclesiastical authority according to Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code which voids offices of those publicly defecting from Catholic faith. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the very premise of such an entity:
“The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Condemned Proposition 80).
By celebrating Ratzinger’s theological legacy, the Foundation institutionalizes the hermeneutic of continuity – that Modernist poison which seeks to harmonize conciliar errors with Catholic Tradition. Cardinal Ratzinger himself admitted this strategy in his 2005 address to the Roman Curia, proving the Foundation exists to perpetuate doctrinal corruption.
Personnel of Perdition: A Rogues’ Gallery of Modernists
The renewed governing bodies constitute a who’s-who of conciliar revolutionaries:
- Georg Gänswein: Former secretary to Ratzinger who facilitated his scandalous “emeritus” parallel papacy
- Bruno Forte: Architect of the adultery-approving Amoris Laetitia
- Rino Fisichella: Promoter of the heretical “missionary synod” paradigm
That such men oversee Ratzinger’s intellectual legacy confirms St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis:
“Modernists are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies but most especially in her very bosom” (§2).
The Lamentabili Sane expressly condemns the Foundation’s operating principle: that theological positions can evolve through “continuous additions” (Proposition 54) rather than immutable dogmatic development.
Theological Poison Disguised as Pastoral Outreach
Regoli’s statement about helping youth “rediscover the beauty of faith… in Christ and in the Church” employs deliberately ambiguous language masking doctrinal subversion. Contrast this with Pius XI’s definitive teaching in Quas Primas:
“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” (§19).
The Foundation substitutes this social kingship of Christ with Ratzinger’s relativistic “theology of encounter” – a blueprint for the conciliar church’s ongoing apostasy. Their planned global conferences and concerts constitute not evangelization but entertainment of the Modernist sensum fidei condemned in Lamentabili (Proposition 6).
Centenary Celebrations: Cult of Personality Replaces Cultus Dei
The 2027 centenary plans expose the neo-church’s substitution of divine worship with humanistic celebrity culture. While claiming to promote Ratzinger’s theology, the Foundation actually markets his persona – the “humble Bavarian scholar” narrative carefully constructed to rehabilitate Vatican II’s radical architects.
This personality cult directly violates the First Commandment, elevating a man complicit in:
- The New Mass’s destruction of Catholic worship (Sacrosanctum Concilium)
- The ecuмenical surrender to false religions (Nostra Aetate)
- The democratization of Church governance (Communio Theology)
As co-author of the heretical Rhineland Synod and enforcer of the post-conciliar revolution, Ratzinger deserves censure – not veneration. That the Foundation receives funding from the conciliar sect’s coffers proves Bergoglio’s regime views this centenary as crucial for cementing the “hermeneutic of reform” narrative before the aging Vatican II generation dies off.
Omissions That Damn: Silence on Supernatural Realities
Nowhere does the article mention:
- The Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell)
- The necessity of sacramental confession for salvation
- The Social Kingship of Christ over nations
This naturalistic focus exposes the Foundation’s true orientation: not Catholic intellectual tradition but promotion of the anthropocentric “new evangelization” condemned by St. Pius X as “the summing up of all heresies” (Pascendi §39). Their planned publications and exhibitions will inevitably whitewash Ratzinger’s key role in:
- Suppressing the Third Secret of Fatima (a Masonic operation per FILE: False Fatima Apparitions)
- Promoting interreligious prayer at Assisi (direct idolatry)
- Destroying priestly formation through psychological screening methods
The Only Path: Reject Conciliarism Entirely
True Catholics must recognize this Foundation as part of the conciliar sect’s apparatus for self-legitimation. As the Syllabus of Errors teaches:
“The Roman Pontiff cannot, and ought not to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80).
There exists no “good” Vatican II figure worth celebrating – only degrees of apostasy. Until the conciliar antipopes publicly abjure their errors and the Church returns to her pre-1958 discipline, all such foundations remain monuments to heresy. The centenary preparations should be met not with engagement, but with non possumus and fervent prayers for the Church’s liberation from these modernist occupiers.
Source:
Ratzinger Foundation: Father Roberto Regoli appointed new President (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.01.2026