The New Pope (4 Viewers)

[snakybus]

Ratzinger got it


sieg heil

 

[billygannon]

He's no Benedict 15th (boy, could he beatify).

 

[taubstumm]

linky linky?

 

[dudley]

papa razi

 

[BC]

the new pope was a nazi.

 

[RSJ]

Served in the anti-plane division apparently. It's like the church is trying to kill itself off - in a time when everyone is on about how they need to modernise, they take a gigantic step back.

 

[roxy]

Nostradamus is foiled again....

 

[Eddie Gorilla]

well whoever the new pope is, lets hope he does some stuff to give the third world a break. I'm sure some kind of action regarding contraception might have a positive effect on the whole aids disaster in africa for instance?

Hahahahaha, good luck with that. "Rigorously conservative" he is!

Fairly fuckin' ould fer a pope, inny?
He sure knows how to work a crowd though. D'ya hear em chantin'?
"YOU - ARE - THEFUCKINMAN! YOU - ARE - THEFUCKINMAN!"

 

[oh shit]

i'm hoping he conquers strange new worlds and civilizations.

 

[avernus]

I had a dream last night that Ratzinger was elected the new pope. and now, he's the new pope. I wonder what I'll dream tonight.

 

[dudley]

i just hope he has a laugh with it

 

[pete]

Unknown to many members of the church, however, Ratzinger’s past includes brief membership of the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti- aircraft unit.

Although there is no suggestion that he was involved in any atrocities, his service may be contrasted by opponents with the attitude of John Paul II, who took part in anti-Nazi theatre performances in his native Poland and in 1986 became the first pope to visit Rome’s synagogue.

“John Paul was hugely appreciated for what he did for and with the Jewish people,” said Lord Janner, head of the Holocaust Education Trust, who is due to attend ceremonies today to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

“If they were to appoint someone who was on the other side in the war, he would start at a disadvantage, although it wouldn’t mean in the long run he wouldn’t be equally understanding of the concerns of the Jewish world.”

The son of a rural Bavarian police officer, Ratzinger was six when Hitler came to power in 1933. His father, also called Joseph, was an anti-Nazi whose attempts to rein in Hitler’s Brown Shirts forced the family to move home several times.

In 1937 Ratzinger’s father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a staunchly Catholic town in Bavaria close to the Führer’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership was made compulsory in 1941.

He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary. “Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an enthusiastic one,” concluded John Allen, his biographer.

Two years later Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines. The workforce included slaves from Dachau concentration camp.

Ratzinger has insisted he never took part in combat or fired a shot — adding that his gun was not even loaded — because of a badly infected finger. He was sent to Hungary, where he set up tank traps and saw Jews being herded to death camps. He deserted in April 1944 and spent a few weeks in a prisoner of war camp.

He has since said that although he was opposed to the Nazi regime, any open resistance would have been futile — comments echoed this weekend by his elder brother Georg, a retired priest ordained along with the cardinal in 1951.

“Resistance was truly impossible,” Georg Ratzinger said. “Before we were conscripted, one of our teachers said we should fight and become heroic Nazis and another told us not to worry as only one soldier in a thousand was killed. But neither of us ever used a rifle against the enemy.”

Some locals in Traunstein, like Elizabeth Lohner, 84, whose brother-in-law was sent to Dachau as a conscientious objector, dismiss such suggestions. “It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others,” she said. “The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.”

http://bible.gideonse.com/

 

[pete]

i just hope he has a laugh with it

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[billygannon]

Apparently he's promising an extensive range of Communion dips!

 

[ITalkShite]

 

[avernus]

http://bible.gideonse.com/

ya but whats he gonna say "yeah - I shot like thirty allied troops and two hundred jews. he's right though, if he had of resisted he'd probably be dead. but then that hardly makes the guy admirable.

 

[plug]

Hahahahaha, good luck with that. "Rigorously conservative" he is!

bit of a kick in the bollix eh? well, that's optimism for ya!

 

[avernus]

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire

 

[Eddie Gorilla]

bit of a kick in the bollix eh? well, that's optimism for ya!

I know!
I was actually a little surprised they chose someone so conservative. I hear he's gonna ban not having AIDS in Africa. Fuck's sake, like.

 

[billygannon]

It's a pity Cardinal Sin didn't get it.