“…While Vatican II said that the Holy Spirit was in operation among
the people, now we are saying, no, the holy spirit is operating in the
bishops. It is an enormous change.” says Frank Flinn, author of the
“Encyclopedia of Catholicism.” The “impression [previous Pope] John
Paul II gave was to emphasize teaching so that all may be one. But
Benedict is turning around and saying to churches, ‘you aren’t all
one.’It is destroying the ecumenical movement.”

…Defenders say that only by a radical reassertion of traditional Catholicism can the church become the body able to bring clarity, order, and moral authority to a troubled world. The various attempts to adapt the church to modernity in the 1960s, they argue, have resulted only in muddled meanings and a lack of proper moral concepts. Beyond that, the opening of the church allowed Jewish, Protestant, atheist, and Islamic ideas to compete against what is seen as God’s church, instituted by Christ and the apostle Peter.

A church’s assertive shift toward tradition | csmonitor.com