Like other human traits (both normal and disordered), narcissistic traits and symptoms are statistically on the "normal curve." This means that there are few individuals at either extremes (5% with no narcissistic traits at all and 5% who can be easily diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder), but the great majority of people are close to the middle of the curve... and thus have a few of these traits.

Red flags began appearing a few years ago and have escalated ever since.

New structures are in place that cannot be denied: GAFCON, the Anglican Church in North America, concordats between the Continuing Anglican jurisdictions, growing orthodox Anglican jurisdictions that never were in communion with Canterbury, Anglican journalists (like David Virtue) who doggedly track and call out falsehoods, and the archived records that reveal the systematic attack on Anglicans who resisted the dangerous innovations of heretics, revisionists, and blundering bureaucrats.

The first Vatican "insider" to be elected pope since Angelo Roncalli (John 23--hell with the Roman numerals) who had served in the Vatican's diplomatic corps before becoming Cardinal of Venice, Ratzinger lacked the elbows to combat the "gay mafia" which has controlled the papal enclave (of which at least two of his more recent predecessors were members) since the days of the Medici pope Leo 10.