The Holy Spirit, however, is in charge here...
...ah yes, the famous ‘Holy Spirit desires it’ defense for the Church’s emasculation following Vatican II...
“...ah yes, the famous ‘Holy Spirit desires it’ defense for the Church’s emasculation following Vatican II...”
Man, you could not be more off base. John 16:13
I have a firm faith in the protection of the Church by the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit decides a pope needs to die to save the Church, that pope will die. You seem to lack faith in God’s providence. I don’t. Ever.
You confuse the intent of John the XxIii with a sequence of unintended events that happened after the close of Vatican ii. That convoluted thinking has become de mode certain weak follower of one sort. The actual criticism of the documents of Vatican Ii have been pretty well disposed of by scholars such as Pope Benedict in his discourse on the hermeneutics of rupture.