Benedict XVI: The conceptuality of St. Anselm has now become for us incomprehensible….
“Only where there is mercy does cruelty end, only with mercy do evil and violence end. Pope Francis is totally in agreement with this line. His pastoral practice is expressed in the fact that he continually speaks to us of God’s mercy. It is mercy that moves us toward God, while justice frightens us before Him.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-of-benedict-xvis-recent-rare-and-lengthy-interview-26142
If ABS is reading that correctly, Bishop Emeritus Ratzinger thinks that the Justice of God is cruelty.
Maybe that is the searched for key as to ultimately why the Roman Rite was destroyed. Maybe the revolutionaries did not believe in the Faith once delivered and so we could not be allowed the Roman Rite which clearly taught that The Holocaust/Sacrifice of the Mass was, in one aspect of it, a sacrifice of propitiation to appease God's Justice...
https://tinyurl.com/yb3vqqyl
Well, if we have "deepened our understanding" that the Justice of God is cruelty then we really have "rethought" Justification (Sorry you big blue meanies at Trent) and so Francis is merely actualising the curious and captious "Faith" that has been slowly ascending for roughly a century and has now reached such a height that everyone all over the world can now see it in all of its brazen shiny gold color.
Trent: CHAPTER VII
IN WHAT THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE SINNER CONSISTS, AND WHAT ARE ITS CAUSES
This disposition or preparation is followed by justification itself, which is not only a remission of sins but also the sanctification and renewal of the inward man through the voluntary reception of the grace and gifts whereby an unjust man becomes just and from being an enemy becomes a friend, that he may be an heir according to hope of life everlasting.[30]
The causes of this justification are:
the final cause is the glory of God and of Christ and life everlasting; the efficient cause is the merciful God who washes and sanctifies[31] gratuitously, signing and anointing with the holy Spirit of promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance,[32] the meritorious cause is His most beloved only begotten, our Lord Jesus Christ, who, when we were enemies,[33] for the exceeding charity wherewith he loved us,[34] merited for us justification by His most holy passion on the wood of the cross and made satisfaction for us to God the Father, the instrumental cause is the sacrament of baptism, which is the sacrament of faith,[35] without which no man was ever justified finally, the single formal cause is the justice of God, not that by which He Himself is just, but that by which He makes us just, that, namely, with which we being endowed by Him, are renewed in the spirit of our mind,[36] and not only are we reputed but we are truly called and are just, receiving justice within us, each one according to his own measure, which the Holy Ghost distributes to everyone as He wills,[37] and according to each one's disposition and cooperation.
Lord have mercy. Bishop Emeritus Ratzinger claims that the Justice of God, THE FORMAL CAUSE OF OUR JUSTIFICATION is cruelty. That is monstrous insanity and plain and simply a case of evil in that truth has been inverted.