Pope Benedict's Legacy: Purify His Church

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
By Robert Marquand

May 28 2006: Pope Benedict XVI stands in front of the 
death wall at the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim

VATICAN CITY---A shy but brilliant scholar whose consistent vision has been to reinstitute the grand authority held by the Vatican in the Middle Ages, Benedict has, often single-handedly, redirected his church away from the liberal experiments and sometimes amateurish enthusiasms of the Vatican II period of the 1960s, which conservatives saw as a dangerous diversion. He has also, over years, instituted doctrines, individuals, and orders consistent with his theological view of the Catholic Church as the true and only authentic one. Benedict's chief occupation as pope has been, observers say, to purify his church.  [link]