A LEADING candidate for pope was in the Hitler Youth and saw service in the German army.And further uh-oh:
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is nicknamed The Panzer Cardinal and God's Rottweiler because of his rigorous defence of the faith.
The 78-year-old German joined the young Nazi movement in Bavaria aged 14 in 1941.
At one point, he guarded a factory where slaves from a concentration camp were forced to work. He was later shipped to Hungary, where he reportedly saw Jews persecuted.Well, I know who’s got the Gibson family vote.
This obviously isn’t news, because I remember an episode of Law & Order from awhile ago that obviously borrowed the story. It was news to me, though.
Shouldn’t this automatically preclude him from consideration, or does the Catholic church really not give a shit about Jews (or anyone or anything else but itself) anymore?
(Pam’s got more here.)
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