Pope Benedict Knew How to Hit the Nail on the Head, Even When He Was Cardinal Ratzinger.

And now a short excursion into common sense.

“I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it. It’s impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that. A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent. Can such a community be trusted any more about anything else?”

Joseph Ratzinger in Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium- An Interview With Peter Seewald

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Comment: When did the Church begin to lose its credibility? I remember when, and so do millions of Catholics who experienced the spiritual laceration of  their innocent and trusting Catholic hearts. It was the day that the Traditional Latin Mass was violently stripped away from  us and we were left lost on an open sea, looking for land that was no longer there for us to hold onto.

What Catholics ever thought that the Church would spiritually abandon them and would treat them as “down right indecent” for wanting to cling to the only Holy Mass they had ever known, and who had been assured by their pastors that the Mass could never be changed? Many of us know from personal experience that that was the moment Catholics began to mistrust their Church, followed only by decades of repression of their Mass, and we were even told, “You don’t get it, do you? Get with the times!”

And the lies and suppression had only gotten worse throughout the decades after Vatican II. Thank God that Pope Benedict heard our voices crying in the wilderness and restored “The Mass of All Time,” placing it on the same level of importance as the newer mass, which he described when he was Cardinal as a banal fabrication, and not a natural development of the Liturgy over time, because it was not merely a translation of the Old Mass, but a completely new rewrite, sold to the people under the guise that they could now understand it, and deleting all prayers of the Mass that were too  Catholic or which offended Protestants, for ecumenical purposes!