10-03-2022, 10:23 AM
Card. Ratzinger: I did not change
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At Vatican Council II, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger (above right) receiving orientation from his mentor, progressivist theologian Karl Rahner.
TIA | April 2004
If someone were to cast doubt upon Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's affiliation to the progressivist current, he could find the Prelate's own admittance of such in an interview with journalist Vittorio Messori, who calls him a "balanced progressivist."
Messori points to Ratzinger as "one of the founders of the magazine Concilium, a meeting place for the progressivist wing of theology."
"'Was it a sin of youth, Your Emminence, this engagement with Concilium?' I asked him, joshing.
"'Absolutely not,' he answered. 'I did not change; they changed.'"
(Rapporto sulla Fede - Vittorio Messori a coloquio con Joseph Ratzinger, Rome: Paoline, 1985, p. 14).
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre