A propos of nothing – except perhaps the religious time of year –
here’s The Spectator‘s report on one Cardinal Ratzinger setting out his “cautious and conservative” vision for Catholicism at the Extraordinary Synod of 1985:
Ratzinger’s synod, The Spectator, Vera Buchanan, 7 December 1985
Rome – Well, the Extraordinary Synod is nearly over – it has been a well planned, well executed flop. Thus it was conceived and thus it has borne fruit – bland, musty fruit. In Rome no one expected anything else. While foreign presses tried to titillate the public with dramatic tales of clocks being turned back, rivers of modernism dammed, the spirit of Vatican II laID, here in the cynical Eternal City we knew better. We knew that this synod was Cardinal Ratzinger’s synod and therefore despite the disappointed posturing of theologians and the weak bleating of local hierarchies it would conform to Cardinal Ratzinger’s vision.
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