{"id":1792876,"date":"2023-01-02T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792876"},"modified":"2023-01-02T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:05:17","slug":"daniel-mccarthy-pope-benedict-defender-of-sacred-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daniel-mccarthy-pope-benedict-defender-of-sacred-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McCarthy: Pope Benedict is Defender of Sacred Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdaniel-mccarthy-pope-benedict-defender-of-sacred-tradition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Who could possibly emulate Pope John Paul II?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 the College of Cardinals in Rome faced the daunting task of selecting John Paul\u2019s successor. The Polish pope had reigned for nearly 27 years and played a pivotal role in ending communism\u2019s tyranny in Eastern Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/31\/world-leaders-praise-late-pope-benedict-xvi-as-wise-holy\/\">charisma of a rock star<\/a> And the mind of an intellectual. Conservatives loved him but JPII was also a great modernizer of Church. His successor would step into his shadow \u2014 and have to deal with the greatest failure of his pontificate, the horrific sexual abuse scandals plaguing the faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger prayed he wouldn\u2019t be chosen. He was in many ways John Paul\u2019s right-hand man, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for nearly a quarter century and the logical choice to solidify John Paul\u2019s legacy. Yet Ratzinger was 78 and feared he was too old to complete his friend\u2019s unfinished work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ratzinger was chosen by the college and made Pope Benedict XVI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Conservatives \u2014 and not just Catholic ones \u2014 were thrilled. Liberals were horrified and protested when Benedict offered the Traditional Latin Mass more widely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benedict tried to heal wounds that had been left from the ecclesiastical revolutions of Vatican II. He spoke no words about the \u201cfilth\u201d That perpetrated sexual abuse within Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was also charged with the religious controversies that arose after the September 11 attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is faith the cause of violence and fanaticism in some cases? Is Christianity a form Western imperialism? As Islamists or liberal postmodernists insist, Christianity?\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/pope-benedict2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pope-benedict2.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - Pope Benedict XVI opens his arms during his final general audience in St. Peter&#039;s Square at the Vatican, on Feb. 27, 2013, before retiring. He was the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps and Mozart piano concertos to the public glare and majesty of Vatican pageantry. When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI and was thrust into the footsteps of his beloved and charismatic predecessor, he said he felt a guillotine had come down on him. The Vatican announced Saturday Dec. 31, 2022 that Benedict, the former Joseph Ratzinger, had died at age 95. (AP Photo\/Gregorio Borgia, File)\" class=\"wp-image-25201201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/pope-benedict2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/pope-benedict2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/pope-benedict2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/pope-benedict2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>Pope Benedict XVI during his final general audience in St. Peter\u2019s Square at the Vatican, on Feb. 27, 2013, before he became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a short speech at the University of Regensburg on Sept.\u200912, 2006, Benedict gave a brilliant defense of Christianity as a religion of reason as well as revelation \u2014 a religion of persuasion, not conquest, and a teacher of objective morality in an age when science had become merely empirical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Regensburg lecture caused controversy and was misunderstood as an attack on Islam. It was actually an affirmation of Socratic philosophy and the Catholic faith. The message was universal. This was the heart of Benedict\u2019s pontificate and of Ratzinger\u2019s life\u2019s work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His website is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/31\/pope-benedict-xvi-dead-at-95\/\">death on New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a>Benedict, a Benedictine monk, was well-known by many outsiders, but not enough within the Church for his exemplary work in establishing and maintaining the Church. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/02\/12\/pope-benedict-announces-his-resignation\/\">resigned the papacy in 2013<\/a> \u2014 the first pope to do so in nearly 600 years. Although his admirers were shocked, Benedict knew exactly what he was doing. He was aware of his age and understood that the future pontiffs could also be too old to hold the office. He established a precedent that would guide them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Benedict XVI is not to be remembered as the pope who resigned nor as an epilogue of the great John Paul II. Benedict was a champion of faith \u2014 against fanaticism and cold materialism alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Age: A Conservative Review is edited by Daniel McCarthy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who could possibly emulate Pope John Paul II?\u00a0 In 2005 the College of Cardinals in Rome faced the daunting task of selecting John Paul\u2019s successor. 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