The Nashua Advocate: Choice of Pope Spells Disaster for Catholicism, World

[nashuaadvocate]

Find a new article in The Nashua Advocate on the topic here.

If you don't know much about the new Pope, this is a good place to start.

-- TNE

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An excerpt (in-line links removed from this excerpt, but can be found via original article at link above):

Former Hitler Youth, Nicknamed "God's Rottweiler," Selected As Next Pope, Future of Catholicism Among Members of the Next Generation Gravely in Doubt

By ADVOCATE STAFF

In a move certain to further alienate and anger non-practicing, lapsed, and semi-practicing Catholics the world over, the Catholic Church--whose pre-1970 history of anti-Semitism is matched only in its audacity by the Church's sorry history of appeasing Hitler--has selected a former member of the World War II-era Hitler Youth to be the next Pope.

Of new Pope Joseph Ratzinger's wartime membership in the fascist organization, the man's biographer could only note that said participation was "brief," "unenthusiastic," and, according to the biography, mandatory. (Article).

This account of Ratzinger's early years is contradicted by at least one of his acquaintances from that time, Elizabeth Lohner, 84, of Traunstein, who told The Sunday Times recently that "it was possible to resist (entering the Hitler Youth), and those people set an example for others. The Ratzingers were young and they had made a different choice."

According to The Guardian (UK), the Sunday Times of London said prior to the conclave that "Ratzinger's wartime past 'may return to haunt him.'" (Article).

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[jean]

1. Good piece - the link is off though - here's

the one you want:
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/04/former-hitler-youth-nicknamed-gods.html

[nashuaadvocate]

3. Thanks for the heads-up! Switched link to main page, should work now. n/t

[wakeme2008]

2. deleted second link works.

:)