Just Who Will Be History's Worst Pope?

Just Who Will Be History's Worst Pope?

Alas, after the dust settles, and it will at some point, Benedict XVI will be considered the worst pope in history -- worse than Bergi the Destructor. Because of the way B16 went out, he's left confusion, and indeed chaos. Bergi could have provided all that on his own!


Ratzinger could have become a cardinal and lived in seclusion, no doubt about that. Any monastery in the world would have taken him. Let's leave him to his fate and deal with the disaster we actually have that Ratzinger so unkindly left us.

Josef Ratzinger isn't a fool, or is he? He knows most Catholics are simple folk, not Vaticanistas. They can't parse all the details. No one should expect them to! I've seen photos of him in his white sitting close by Bergi in his white as the latter reads from a document -- Ratzinger has to know how confusing that it is. What he did, and the way he did it, and the way he continues doing it, is like the pea in the Princess's bed, and dar Crom, Ratzinger has to know that.

Thus it'll be Ratzinger who goes down as the worst pope in history, not Bergi. Bergi at least has the grace to do what the Lavender Mafia appointed him to do: destroy the Church. Ratzinger has been a manipulator since his days at the Second Vatican Council. Too clever, too subtle, too much the manipulator and always and ever, too much the coward.

Thank the Lord it is God Who'll judge him. I just want to forget he ever existed, but he just won't let me.

An Préachán