Can't Make sense of this Link?

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anrmenchaca47 said:
Please read the following link:

rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/02/she-wanted-to-convert-but-she-listened.html

Emeritus Benedict XIV, Then Cardinal Ratzinger, apparently convinced a protestant woman to stay protestant. I mean…isn’t the goal to convert everyone to the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church? Give your (name removed by moderator)ut please. Thanks
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We must remember that the Holy Father was formed in the Augustinian and Franciscan traditions. He is a scholar on Augustine and Bonaventure. Both traditions discourage making any life changing decisions, especially conversions, in times of crisis. The mind and the heart must be free to reflect and to give total consent of the will. Passion, confusion and doubt should be red flags to remind us to do nothing until God has restored our interior silence where we can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and respond with clarity and freedom.
 
That website also often presents material out of context in ways to make any pope who came after Pius XII look foolish, misguided, or flat-out wrong, based on my visits there.
 
I wouldn’t exert a whole lot of brain power trying to make sense of posts on that blog. They very seldom tell anything close to the whole story.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
That website also often presents material out of context in ways to make any pope who came after Pius XII look foolish, misguided, or flat-out wrong, based on my visits there.
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Absolutely. 👍

They also have a nasty habit of referring to “Bergoglio”, “Ratzinger”, etc. instead of the Papal names (Francis, Benedict, John Paul…) and of selectively presenting information to make the current leaders of the Church look bad. Plus, their “recommended links” site also includes “sedevacantist” and “resistant” material. Read them for entertainment, not edification. (That’s a sad thing to say about a Catholic blog, but it’s true.)

We must also bear in mind that an individual’s decision to convert cannot be coerced. The woman in question is dead and cannot speak for herself. Without knowing the full facts of the case, it’s rash to judge someone as good as Pope Emeritus Benedict on the basis of a flimsy story.
 
RPRPsych said:
Absolutely. 👍

They also have a nasty habit of referring to “Bergoglio”, “Ratzinger”, etc. instead of the Papal names (Francis, Benedict, John Paul…) and of selectively presenting information to make the current leaders of the Church look bad. Plus, their “recommended links” site also includes “sedevacantist” and “resistant” material. Read them for entertainment, not edification. (That’s a sad thing to say about a Catholic blog, but it’s true.)

We must also bear in mind that an individual’s decision to convert cannot be coerced. The woman in question is dead and cannot speak for herself. Without knowing the full facts of the case, it’s rash to judge someone as good as Pope Emeritus Benedict on the basis of a flimsy story.
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RPRPsych said:
Absolutely. 👍

**They also have a nasty habit of referring to “Bergoglio”, “Ratzinger”, etc. instead of the Papal names (Francis, Benedict, John Paul…) **and of selectively presenting information to make the current leaders of the Church look bad. Plus, their “recommended links” site also includes “sedevacantist” and “resistant” material. Read them for entertainment, not edification. (That’s a sad thing to say about a Catholic blog, but it’s true.)

We must also bear in mind that an individual’s decision to convert cannot be coerced. The woman in question is dead and cannot speak for herself. Without knowing the full facts of the case, it’s rash to judge someone as good as Pope Emeritus Benedict on the basis of a flimsy story.
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…That’s a traditional way of referring to Popes, especially in Italy.
 
RPRPsych said:
I see! 🙂 Well, I stand corrected on this point, and will charitably assume that they are using an old Italian tradition.
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Yes, it is certainly a cultural thing to use the surnames of the pre-regnal names of popes. It is quite common in some places.
 
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