Embarrassing Questions: Ex-President - an Atheist - Wonders About Benedict's Funeral
Calling Benedict “the last of the great men of the 20th century” who fought for “the normal world” against - what Klaus calls - "modern progressivism," he had the impression during the funeral that "the whole effort was not about Benedict XVI."
"Not a word was said about him except in general terms," Klaus observes, "There was a strange, but dare I say, not a sacred silence," He doesn't recall the bells of St Peter's ringing forcefully at all.
About the Novus Ordo funeral liturgy, "I'd say it was a 'normal' mass. But I have to confess, I certainly didn't go to Rome for that."
His conclusion, "Could it be that today's Vatican didn't like Benedict? Or not just the Vatican, but today's Catholic Church, which - unlike Pope Benedict - doesn't want to buck the world, even though it is so contrary to the Church's millennia of teaching?"
And, "Wasn't Pope Benedict perhaps the bad conscience of today's Church?"
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