Vatican spokesman criticizes those who see opposition between Pope Benedict, successors
February 26, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, criticized “those who use selected passages of the magisterium of Benedict XVI to try to set it in opposition to that of his successors.”
In his February 25 editorial, Tornielli cited a 1981 homily by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI). Tornielli spoke of the similarities between Cardinal Ratzinger’s description of the Church in the homily and Pope Francis’s image of the Church as a field hospital.
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Feb. 26, 2026 10:18 AM ET USA
Francis has done things that would be unthinkable under any of the Pontiffs before him: public meetings with pro-abortion and pro-gay activists and politicians, blessings of active homosexual couples, suppression of the Latin Mass, bringing pagan idols into the Vatican, abandoning Catholics in China to the communist regime, promoting McCarrick, Rupnik, and Zanchetta in full knowledge of their moral corruption. To quote one similar line in a homily from 45 years ago seems attempt at gaslighting.
