Thanks Papa!

“Following Vatican Council II some people were convinced that all was new, that a new Church existed, that the pre-conciliar Church had come to an end and that there would be another, completely different Church, an anarchic utopia. Yet thanks to God the wise helmsmen of the ship of Christ, Paul VI and John Paul II, defended on the one hand the novelty of the Church and, at the same time, the uniqueness and continuity of the Church, which is always a Church of sinners, and always a place of grace.” – Pope Benedict XVI

I do so appreciate it when the Holy Father agrees with me. There are not two Churches, pre and post-conciliar. There is just one Church, full of sinners and even fuller of the Holy Spirit, or we’d all be sunk.