On July 15, 2017, Pope Benedict XVI sent a message at the funeral of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, in which he said that the Church was “on the verge of capsizing”.  The Pope Emeritus said that he was moved at the dubia cardinal’s ability to “live out of a deep conviction that the Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on the verge of capsizing.”Bron: Pope Benedict XVI: The Church is ‘on the verge of capsizing’