Up to this point, the UK Tablet has been okay with Benedict. Today, in the most recent issue, they reprint an excerpt from a forthcoming bio of JPII.

The tone for the meeting was set by the publication of a book entitled The Ratzinger Report, a long interview which John Paul’s man at the CDF had given to the Italian journalist Vittorio Messori. The cardinal tactfully spoke of “restoration” rather than counter-revolution, but there seemed little doubt about what he had in mind. “If by ‘restoration’ we understand the search for a new balance after all the exaggerations of an indiscriminate opening to the world, after the overly positive interpretations of an agnostic and atheistic world,” he told Vittorio Messori, “then a restoration understood in this sense (a newly found balance of orientation and values within the Catholic totality) is altogether desirable and, for that matter, is already in operation in the Church.”