Now, Pope Benedict's abdication is to take effect a mere seventeen days from
today, on February 28, 2013 at precisely 8 p.m. This means that Benedict
will avoid the dubious canonization of John Paul II and the simply absurd
beatification of Paul VI.

The steamroller driving toward those vexatious events, sweeping aside all
reasonable objections, has suddenly been stopped dead in its tracks.

Did the Pope abdicate, at least in part, to slow down John Paul II's
saint-making machine, which was threatening to canonize the Council of which
Benedict himself (in his more candid moments) has been so critical?  We may
be permitted think so.

Consider: Benedict might have been wrestling with the propriety of raising
John Paul to the altars of the universal Church and declaring Paul VI a
beatus, thus placing his papal imprimatur on what he himself, when he was
Cardinal Ratzinger, described as a post-conciliar "process of decay"-a
process only Pope Benedict has done anything to reverse since the Council.

Yet, Benedict was also under tremendous pressure from "conciliarist" forces
to perform both acts in order to shore up the collapsing credibility of the
conciliar aggiornamento. (...)

Thus, we can surmise that Benedict faced a dilemma: If he simply refused to
exercise the papal primacy to canonize the Council, he would be met with a
storm of outrage from conciliarist militants.

But if he yielded to pressure and proceeded with those acts, he would have
to answer to his own conscience and ultimately to the Judge of us all.

Fearing that he would be unable to resist the pressure to perform the
ceremonies demanded and already arranged, awaiting only his approving act,
he might have concluded that his best course of action was to jump off the
steamroller before it could reach its destination.

It stands to reason that if Benedict were at all committed to the idea of
"Saint John Paul II the Great" and "Blessed Paul VI," he would have remained
in office at least long enough to perform the necessary papal acts.

Yet he has left office, in a purely discretionary manner, just as those acts
were slated to occur-during the ironically designated "Year of Faith" that
is taking place in the midst of the "silent apostasy" that is our
inheritance from the previous two pontificates. (...)

Whatever the Pope sees coming must be the motive for his abdication, unless
we are willing to conclude that he simply wearied of his office and decided
in his weakness to abandon it.  No, there must be more.

I echo the sentiments of the Editor in concluding that Pope Benedict has
sacrificed himself to the wolves, lying down in front of them while they
sniff the corpse of his pontificate in puzzlement, surprised by their
ultimately easy prey, and momentarily distracted from what may already have
been put in motion respecting the next conclave.

Benedict, we can suppose, has placed his hope in the Holy Ghost and the
election of a successor who might resist where he can no longer resist,
repel what he can no longer repel, restore in full what he no longer has the
strength to recover in full from those who have kept it from us-including,
one must say, the two ill-starred predecessors it is insanely proposed to
exalt as among the greatest of Popes.

This seems to be what Pope Benedict is saying when he declares, surely in
the light of Fatima: "let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our
Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so
that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in
electing a new Supreme Pontiff."

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