As we know, Rome failed to correct the progressives in a meaningful way, and they dominate the Vatican today. Traditional Catholics had been making the same observations for roughly two decades by the time that Cardinal Ratzinger said this. Cardinal Ratzinger evidently sympathized with this instinct but was either unwilling or unable to stop the destruction, even after he became pope. The promotion of religious indifferentismNext, Cardinal Ratzinger condemned errors that had contributed to the religious indifferentism that was prevailing even in 1988. But those progressives whom Cardinal Ratzinger saw as tremendously disobedient to the Vatican in 1988 are the Vatican today, and they remain disobedient to God.