How do you respond to people who claim every pope since Vatican 2 is a universalist?

Ratzinger taught universal salvation for the "good". What that "good" means is undefined in his theology. Many of the Vatican II modernists before Vatican II, and every single "Pope" afterwards taught this same style of salvation.

Ratzinger New Pagans 1958

Ignatius of Loyola requires the one making the spiritual exercises, in the meditation on the Incarnation, consider how the Trinitarian God sees that all men are falling into hell.8 Francis Xavier could tell the believing Mohammedans that all their piety was useless because they, whether pious or godless, whether criminals or virtuous persons, in any event were going to hell, because they did not belong to the only Church that makes a person pleasing to God.9

Today, our humanity prevents us from holding such views. We cannot believe that the man next to us, who is an upright, charitable, and good man, will end up going to hell because he is not a practicing Catholic. The idea that all “good” men will be saved today, for the normal Christian, is just as self-evident as formerly was the conviction of the opposite. Indeed, since Bellarmine, who was one of the first to give consideration to this humanitarian desire, the theologians in many different ways have striven to explain how this saving of all “upright” persons ultimately is a salvation through the Church, but these constructions were somewhat too ingenious for them to make, and leave behind much of an impression.10 Practically, the admission remained that “good men” “go to heaven,” therefore, that one can be saved by morality alone; surely, this applies first of all, and is conceded to the unbelievers, while the faithful are constantly burdened with the strict system of Church requirements.

One thing to note, is how he emphatically teaches novelty, simply because the "majority have decided" without even the inclination that he could be wrong or that the majority are wrong. This is very common among Vatican II adherents. They have no sense for danger or injury which they will be accountable for.

He tries very to pretend that this is ultimately connected to Christ. He repeated the same thing in his book Co-Workers of the Truth. That Christianity is a seeming burden, while all that has ever been required for anyone is to be "good".

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