"Blah blah" yourself!  Benedict is a traditionalist.  Or are you trying to claim that those of us who are church historians don't know the difference between a pope who wanted to turn back the clocks of the church to the days of 1910 as opposed to a pope who recognizes the weight of an Ecumenical Council which has more authority than any pope---because of the assemblage of the world bishops.  Ratzinger was hired by Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne as a theologian [periti] during Vatican II.  He didn't work for Karl Rahner.


And Karl Rahner is one of the most respected theologians of the 20th Century.  So take your comments and blow them out of your ear.