Pope Benedict is ill

It is reported – also by Pope Francis – that “Pope Emeritus” Benedict XVI is seriously ill. Let us keep him in our prayers today. For it was Pope Benedict who liberated the Traditional Mass by issuing Summorum Pontificum in 2007. He suffered much for that and his other attempts to reconnect the Church with her Tradition. Benedict was the target of vicious attacks both during his papacy and up to and including this year. Every Tradionalist, however, owes him an immense debt of gratitude.