LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. Winner 2013 Webby Awards for Best Political Website
May 23, 2013

 Choose a size
Text Size

Trending:     chris hedges     economy     elizabeth warren     politics     robert scheer
Most Read

A Call to Action

Bizarre, Apparently Jihadist Slaying in London (Video)

Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology

Hell on Earth for Greeks

Another Memorial Day in This Endless War

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
 * NEW! * Fish Migration Reveals Ocean Warming

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
 * NEW! * A Call to Action
Act of Congress
Daily Rituals

Digs

Truthdig Bazaar
Jazz

Jazz

By Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux
$26.37

more items

 
Ear to the Ground

Pope’s Nazi Ties Questioned—Again

Email this item Email    Print this item Print    Share this item... Share

Posted on May 12, 2009
Pope in Israel
AP photo / David Silverman, pool

Pope Benedict XVI inserts a written prayer into the cracks of the Western Wall on Tuesday.

It was just the second day of his Holy Land Tour 2009, but unsurprisingly, the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in Israel stirred up more static on Tuesday—this time over his personal wartime history.

BBC:

A row has flared over Pope Benedict XVI’s membership as a teenager of the Hitler Youth, as he paid a historic visit to Jerusalem’s holy sites.

A Vatican spokesman said the pontiff had “never, never, never” belonged—contradicting the Pope’s own admission.

The comments came as he visited the Dome of the Rock—the first pontiff to do so—and then the Western Wall, one of Judaism’s holiest places.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement


New and Improved Comments

If you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.

By MOISÉS IBRAHIM, November 22, 2010 at 9:18 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

COLEGIO RETAMAR: BUNKER DESHUMANIZADOR de lo HUMANIZADO, CENTRO de FORMACIÓN de NUEVOS CRUZADOS, CUARTEL de RECLUTAMIENTO para la CULTURA de la TORTURA, una FORTALEZA de ASALTO a las ARCAS PÚBLICAS en HIJABS NEGROS, un MONASTERIO de MONJES GERRILLEROS en BURKAS AFGANAS y una PRELATURA MEDIEVAL en SOTANITAS INVISIBLES.
Los MALVADOS, los MALHECHORES y los MALNACIDOS del OPUS DEI invadieron mi INTIMIDAD y PRIVACIDAD en aquella noche del HOLOCAUSTO de GAZA que no tiene precedente en la HISTORIA de la HUMANIDAD. Se metieron en mi ORDENADOR con el apoyo de todo el ARSENAL de COMUNICACIONES de la BIN LADENISTA TELEFÓNICA de ESPAÑA con la cobertura del futuro CANDIDATO a la SANTIDAD, el SOBRINO del que fué MARQUÉS de PERALTA y se le subió a los ALTARES bajo unas CIRCUNSTANCIAS ASOMBROSAS. El ASUNTO no se se quedo en ENTRAR y SALIR. Los SATÁNICOS hasta la ETERNIDAD ya tenían bajo su mando el control de mis ORDENADORES durante varios AÑOS, pero esa noche los DESALMADOS tenían por META celebrar los GENOCIDIOS de GAZA o GAZA AUSCHWITIZ por haberme toreado durante toda la NOCHE y al final me ESCRIBIERÓN un SLOGÁN en mi ORDENDADOR “VETE A TU PAÍS PALESTINA”. 
El hecho de celebrar la marcha de BUSHITLER BIN FUHRER RATZINGER no me dice nada, si no hubiera sucedido en mi ORDENADOR de esa forma SATÁNICA tan descarada, que acredita la SATANIDAD hasta la ETERNIDAD de tales CONCEPTOS, PRECEMOTOS, IDEOLOGÍAS Y TEOLOGÍAS.  Me consta que las BOTAS que calzan los SOLDADOS HEBREOS honran, dignifican y glorifican al PRESUNTO SANTO en su PROPIA TUMBA, porque luchan por un IDEAL DIGNO de SUPERVIVENCIA, pero el OPUS DEI lucha para estar destinado a la SATANIDAD hasta la ETERNIDAD.
NO CEDO, NO CONCEDOm NO ABDICO y NO CLAUDICO por HONOR, DIGNIDAD y DERECHO de JUSTICIA. Las AMENAZAS e INTIMIDACIONES procedentes de la POLICIA FASCISTA en SOTANITAS IVISIBLES nunca me ha INQUIETADO, ya que sabía por donde iban los TIROS. El OPUS DEI utiliza y ha utilizado conmigo los MISMOS MODALES O CAMINOS SATÁNICOS de 999 CAMINOS de CAMINO, que me ha ENSEÑADO y ADOCTRINADO. Los ZORROS entran para MATAR, validando la SANTA SUPREMA MAFIA del OPUS DEI en todos los TERRENOS y ESCENARIOS de la VIDA DIARIA.
GRACIAS a la VIDA que me ha dado TANTO. Me ha dado TANTO para acumular sobre la SATANIDAD hasta la ETERNIDAD del OPUS DEI. El DERECHO de JUSTICIA me AMPARA y los DOCUMENTOS procedentes de la misma INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA del ILUSTRE COLEGIO RETAMAR y del MINISTERIO de EDUCACIÓN y CIENCIA del ESTADO ESPAÑOL acreditan los ASALTOS a la RAZÓN por parte de la JERARQUIA del OPUS DEI. Los TESTIMONIOS hablan de ASALTOS a las ARCAS PÚBLICAS, las SUBVENCIONES del ESTADO, la COMUNIDAD de MADRID, los PROPIOS EMPLEADOS, el CONTROL de LORD BLACK MONEY, el MANEJO de FUNDACIONES ILEGALES y el ENVÍO de SAVIOUR COLOURFUL MONEY a las AUTORIDADES ROMANAS. El ALTO MANDATARIO del ILUSTRE COLEGIO RETAMAR donde se EDUCAN ALTEZA y REALEZAS, el DIRECTOR GENERAL JOSÉ LUIS ALIER me entregó en mano TREINTA Y SIETE MIL EUROS en NOMBRE del OPUS DEI

Report this

By MOISÉS IBRAHIM, November 22, 2010 at 9:16 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

COLEGIO RETAMAR: DEVILS ARRIVAL AT THE VATICAN OPUSDEIST PLANET. PRIESTS PROCLAIM BREASTS AND BISHOPS ASK FOR BI SHOPS.
DEVILS have arrived in the VATICAN CITY to express their JOYFUL for the CHURCH SEX ABUSES and PROSTITUTIONS. The VATICAN and OPUS DEI walls are not so THICK. The TECHNOLOGIAL ERA has overcome the POWER of GOD who is not able to move a DOG TAI, and it has made MAN GOD and WOMAN GODDESS. NATURE without BUSHES and HUMAN BODY without MEDIEVAL DOGMAS, PAPACY BONUS and REMOTE BODY CONTROLLERS are the ESSENCE and the ROOTS of CREATIVITY, PLEASURE, LOVE which comprises the UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE,  and JUSTICE that is translated into the POOR BREAD. PEACE at personal and collective levels comes out of LOVE and JUSTICE
The HOLY SPIRIT IMPERFECTIONS of the CATHOLIC OPUSDEIST CHURCH have given WAY OUT to MANKIND LIBERALISM. CHURCH SLAVERY has been kept for those who are identified with MEDIEVAL and the CULTURE of TORTURE. OPUS DEI has led to SPIRITUAL TERRORISM or MODERN CRUSADES in OPUSDEIST INVISIBLE CASSOCKS, CATHOLIC TRIBALIST, CHRISTIAN TALIBANIST and VATICAN JIHADIST.
DEVILS have arrived on the VATICAN IMPERIAL POWER to announce the end of the CHURCH SLAVERY and the CALL to LIBERALISM HOLINESS. The VATICAN SEX ABUSES, HOMOSEXUALITY and PEDOPHILIA have been the fruit of the CHURCH OPUSDEIST SLAVERY for AGES. The CALL to HOLINESS will not be a PRIVILEGE for those who practise SPIRITUAL TERRORISM, carry on ASSAULTS on REASON, make WARS on ERROR and DEVOTE MODERN CRUSADES,
The WAY of the 999 WAYS to ASSAULTS on REASON will not be the WAY to PAX IN AETERNUM or PAX IN TERRA, The FREEDOM of CHOICE will be the the HOLY SUPREME CALL to SANCTITY and not to the HOLY SUPREME MAFIA.
I have been a VICTIM by FASCIST OPUS DEI for over than SIX YEARS of PERSECUTION. I have been KIDNAPPED in the DARKNESS at NIGHT and an attempt of HOMICIDE was planned against my CONSACRED LIFE, by the MEDICAL and the SPIRITUAL TERRORIST, SANTIAGO ESCRIVÁ DE BALAGUER, who is the NEPHEW of the SUPPOSED SAINT and who was the MARQUIS de PERALTA. SANTIAGO was a LEARNER at my ORDERS at ELITIST COLEGIO RETAMAR when he was ELEVEN, and at the END of TIMES he has tried to GIVE END to his TEACHER´S LIFE, The FUTURE CANDIDATES of OPUS DEI SANCITY will be SPIRITUAL TERRORISTS.
OPUS DEI IMPERIAL PLANET ,  THE OPUSDEIST SPANISH FASCIST POLICE, the SPANISH BUSHITERIST JUDGES, BIN LADENIST TELEFÓNICA DE ESPAÑA have been the ARMAMENTS of the OPUS DEI PERSECUTION, The COMPUTING PROSTITUTION and the ADULTERY of the HUMAN RIGHTS have been the great INHERITANCE of the SIPPOSED SAINT to his BLIND FOLLOWERS.
I have been THREATENED but I have never been FRIGHTENED of DEATH. My CREED is JUSTICE which overcomes the most SOPHISTICATED ARMAMENTS or ASK BUSHITLER. WARS on ERROR have led the DEVELOPED COUNTRIES to the ECONOMICAL DECADENCE. I feel PROUD that I have entered the HISTORY of SPAIN from the WIDE GATE. I have have educated tWO GENERATIONS from the ones who come from FASCISM, CHURCH SLAVERY, ARISTOCRACY, NOBILITY, HIGHNESS and ROYALTY for THIRTY THREE YEARS at COLEGIO RETAMAR in MADRID. At the moment, they are controlling the sublimity of the POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL and RELIGIOUS POWERS, The POWERS are HUMAN RIGHTS, HONOUR, DIGNITY and MORALITY.
HOMOSEXUAL HUMAN RIGHTS should be ACHIEVED. LIFE has been CHANGING and there is TIME and CHANCE for SPIRITUAL TERRORISM. LIVE LIFE, LIVE YOURS AND LET THE OTHERS LIVE. LEAVE AWAY MEDIEVALIZED DOGMAS, PAPACY BONUS AND REMOTE BODY CONTROLLERS. ILLED HOLY PURITY have caused CHRONICAL MENTAL DISEASES for ADOLESCENTS and ADULTS at OPUS DEI IMPERIAL POWER.

Report this

By MOISÉS IBRAHIM, November 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

COLEGIO RETAMAR: ASSHOLE OPUS DEI. LA CULTURA DE LOS ASALTOS A LA RAZÓN. LA CULTURA DEL TERRORISMO ESPIRITUAL. LA CULTURA DE LA TORTURA.
VICARIO/VICARIOPUSDAY/DON MOISÉS/MOISÉS IBRAHIM: EX SUPERNUMERARIO DEL OPUS DEI Y EX EDUCADOR DEL ILUSTRE COLEGIO RETAMAR EN MADRID DURANTE TREINTA Y TRES AÑOS, UN BUBKER, UN CUARTEL Y UNA FORTALEZA DE ASALTOS A LA RAZÖN, LAS ARCAS PÚBLICAS, LA SEGURIDAD SOCIAL, LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID, LOS PROPIOS EMPLEADOS, EL MANEJO DE LORD BLACK MONEY, EL CONTROL DE FUNDACIONES ILEGALES Y EL ENVIO DE LORD COLOURFUL MONEY A LAS AUTORIDADES ROMANAS. LOS DOCUMENTOS SELLAN LOS HOCICOS DE BORRICOS CON TODA LA BASURA QUE ALMACENAN DENTRO Y ESCONDEN DEBAJO DE SUS MALDITAS LENGUAS. NO CEDO, NO CONCEDO, NO ABDICO Y NO CLAUDICO A PESAR DE LAS AMENAZAS, Y LAS INTIMIDACIONES. EL HECHO DE HABERME SECUESTRADO EN MI PROPIA CASA Y LA PLANIFICADO UNA INTENTONA DE HOMICIDIO CONTRA MI VIDA SACRADA NO VA A DECAPITAR MI LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN Y MUTILAR MIS DERECHOS LEGÍTIMOS. LA JUSTICIA COMPRENDE EL ARMAMAMENTO MÁS PODEROSO QUE SUPERA TODOS LOS ARMAMENTOS MÁS SOFISTICADOS.  LOS TREINTA Y TRES AÑOS AL SERVICIO DE LA SANTA SUPREMA MAFIA DEL OPUS. ME HAN PERMITIDO ENTRAR POR LA PUERTA GRANDE EN LA HISTORIA DE NUESTRA QUERIDA ESPAÑA. LA TRAYECTORIA MÍA A LO LARGO DE MI CAMINAR POR EL ESCENARIO DE LA VIDA HONRAN, DIGNIFICAN Y GLORIFICAN AL FUNDADOR Y EL FUNDIDOR DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN SU MALDITA TUMBA. HE EDUCADO DOS GENERACIONES DE LOS PROCEDENTES DE LA ARISTOCRACIA, NOBLEZA, GRANDEZA, ALTEZA Y REALEZA, ENTRE LOS QUE SE DESTACAN POR SU SERVICIO A ESPAÑA Y A LA HUMANIDAD, HABIENDO INCRUSTADO PÁGINAS GLORIOSAS EN LA HISTORIA DE NUESTRO PAÍS, NAVARRO RUBIO, SÁNCHEZ BELLA, LÓPEZ BRAVO, AREILZA, WALKER, ALVÁREZ de las ASTURIAS, CANÓVAS DEL CASTILLO, MASÓLIVER, KIDELÁN, ADOLFO SUÁREZ, AGAG, BOTÍN, URQUIJO, QUESADA, KOLPWITZ, CARLOS SAINZ, OREJA Y LOS SOBRINOS DE SU MAJESTAD, REY DE ESPAÑA

Report this

By MOISÉS IBRAHIM, November 21, 2010 at 12:39 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

COLEGIO RETAMAR: LA LLAMADA A LA SANTIDAD OPUSDEISTA Y SIONISTA. LA CULTURA DE LOS ASALTOS A LA RAZÓN. LA CULTURA DEL TERRORISMO ESPIRITUAL. LA CULTURA DE LA TORTURA.
El SIONISMO y el OPUS DEI son parejos del mismo linaje ya que caminan para apropiarse de los recursos financieros ideológicos o sociológicos de toda una comunidad étnica y o religiosa y dominarla por completo. No se puede considerar que toda la comunidad judía es sionisa. No todo judío es sionista o todo sionista es judío. No procede alegar que detrás de cada judío hay un sionista o detrás de cada vaso hay un etarra, pero es justo agregar que detrás de cada miembro del OPUS DEI hay un hermano SIONISTA, debido a que las técnicas de infiltraciones selectivas en las capas sociales, persiguen las mismas metas o los mismos objetivos, y albergan los poderes politicos, economicos, deportivos y religiosos. El OPUS DEI ha seguido las mismas técnicas de HERTZL que se basaban en el adueñamiento del judaísmo en el terreno social e ideológico.  El OPUS DEI se está adueñando del CRISTIANISMO y del PLANETA VATICANO. Esta visto a sentencia que para hacer el bien hace falta ser CAUDALOSO y PODEROSO. HERTZL tiene los mismo derechos de justicia del que fué MARQUÉS de PERALTA para subir a los ALTARES del CRISTIANISMO. Wojtyla, el peniultimo cruzado de un papado MEDIEVAL que evidenció el PODER del OPUS DEI al dirigirse al rector mayor de los SALESIANOS, EGIDIO VIGANÓ, el 21 de diciembre de 1978 “ENTONCES, SOÍS MÁS PODEROSOS QUE EL OPUS DEI, QUE SÓLO TIENE STENTA MIL”.  El OPUS DEI es un MAL para la HUMANIDAD heredado del SIONISMO y se encarnan ambos como GEMELOS de las ALAS más EXTREMISTAS del JUDAÍSMO y el CRISTIANISMO.  El DINERO es el DIOS del SIONISMO y del OPUS DEI ante el que no puede prevalecer ningún otro DIOS. El DINERO humilla a todos los DIOSES del HOMBRE y sin lugar a dudas le convierte en una MERCANCIA y un SER MECANIZADO. La POBREZA no aporta PODER. La RIQUEZA aporta PODERES e INJUSTICIAS PERMITIDAS. La RELIGIÓN se reduce en la SUSPIRACIÓN de los OPRIMIDOS, el CORAZÓN de un MUNDO sin CORAZÓN, y el ESPÍTITU de una SITUACIÓN carente de ESPÍRITU. La RELIGIÓN es el OPIO del PUEBLO. La RELIGIÓN es la LUJURIA de unos cuantos MERCENARIOS.
El JUDAÍSMO SIONISTA se alza como el BRAZO DERECHO del OPUS DEI que le está infiltrando en el PLENTA IMPERIAL VATICANO.  Los ILUSTRES INTELECTUALES del PARTIDO POPULAR donde alberga en sus filas toda la HERENCIA del EX MARQUÉS de PERALTA han CONSAGRADO el SIONISMO en el PLENO CONGRESO de los DIPUTADOS de ESPAÑA, cuando el EXPERTO de ASUNTOS EXTERIORES y PORTAVOZ se levantó de su ESCAÑO y se encaró con el actual JEFE de GOBIERNO durante la GUERRA del LIBÁNO, reprochando la ACTITUD JUSTA y NECESARIA del jefe del EJECUTIVO “ERES CONTRA EL SIONISMO Y LOS SIONISTAS”. Los tales LADRIDO de GUSTAVO ARISTEGUI en el CONGRESO de los DIPUTADOS provocaron las PERRAS por todo el MUNDO que comenzaron a LADRADAR ENRABIETADAS, ante tal ABERRANTE y DENIGRANTE EXPRESIÓN que no se ha PRONUNCIADO un SER HUMANO que se identifica con el GÉNERO HUMANO, ni por los MONOS que van saltado en las RAMAS de los ÁRBOLES en PLENA NATURALEZA sin BUSHES, SIN OPUS DEI y SIN PP. El PP me recuerda a JOSÉ MARÍA, elevado a DOS, uno que se consagra como un CRIMINAL de GUERRA que ha de estar entre los CALABOZOS en GUANTÁNAMO y el otro es un SUPUESTO SANTO, subido a los ALTARES bajo una CIRCUNSTANCIAS ANORMALES y SOSPECHOSAS

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 am Link to this comment

Leefeller, May 17 at 11:22 am #

Reality is an unstable state of the mind, except in my case.
********************************************

How about your stable?  Is it unstable?  Do you stable the 40 cats there?

Is the dual therefore true, i.e. Unreality is a stable state of mind, except in my case?

I like this complicated German philosophy.  I think it’s called “Weisenheimerism”.

Report this
Leefeller's avatar

By Leefeller, May 17, 2009 at 8:22 am Link to this comment

Reality is an unstable state of the mind, except in my case.

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 17, 2009 at 7:48 am Link to this comment

foggyjones, May 17 at 12:32 am #

SATURDAY       1132 PM/CST   DFW/USA

REF: Cross check on “Bechler”


The post by “Inherit the Wind” regarding “Evelyn Bechler” is bogus.

You really have gone too far, now.
*******************************************

What kind of slander are you up to now? You STILL are trying to get around looking like an idiot.  Now you are looking like a D***Head.

I merely commented on a post.  WTF is bogus about that?

You are the one going too far. If you make personal accusations against me that are unfounded I WILL go to TD’s admins about it.

Report this
Leefeller's avatar

By Leefeller, May 16, 2009 at 9:00 pm Link to this comment

Shades of mousey Tongue all over again or bakers dozen in cognition.

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 16, 2009 at 7:40 pm Link to this comment

FoggyJones,

Stop trying to cover up the fact that you didn’t recognize Brooks’ “Springtime For Hitler” with this pedantic bullshit.

You got caught with your pants down “my friend” and you should be man enough to just admit it, rather than all this phony condescending chatter.

Or, as a friend of mine always puts it “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 16, 2009 at 5:53 pm Link to this comment

foggyjones, May 15 at 11:17 pm #

FRIDAY   1007 PM/CST   DFW/USA

REF: INHERIT THE WIND

You display the trite, childish bit of Nazi poetry and song for one purpose but, actually, it just shows how innocent, naive and susceptible were the columns of children who knew nothing about politics, religion or history. Just children who had been rescued from desolation and poverty during a crushing economic depression.
******************************************

Are you for real or are you kidding us? 

Are you telling us you don’t know THE most famous song from “The Producers”, Mel Brooks’ fantasy about two crooked producers who sell a few thousand percent of a show doomed to fail, that they WANT to fail, called “Springtime for Hitler” that instead of failing as it’s supposed to is smash comedy hit?

It’s one of the funniest movies of all time and was a smash hit on Broadway.

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi party!”—Mel Brooks

You look like an angry idiot when you say stuff like that.

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 15, 2009 at 9:43 am Link to this comment

Leefeller, May 15 at 12:18 am #

What is with this 100 year old story about the Pope, you guys make it sound like the Pope was drinking buddies with Hitler, we went through this same kind of crap during the last election.  How many times did we hear about Obama paling around with the Bomber guy when Obama was a tot of 3. 
***********************************

“Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!

Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland’s a fine land once more!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Watch out, Europe
We’re going on tour!

Springtime for Hitler and Germany…
Winter for Poland and France…...............”

Report this
Leefeller's avatar

By Leefeller, May 14, 2009 at 9:18 pm Link to this comment

What is with this 100 year old story about the Pope, you guys make it sound like the Pope was drinking buddies with Hitler, we went through this same kind of crap during the last election.  How many times did we hear about Obama paling around with the Bomber guy when Obama was a tot of 3. 

Lets get more important news, news with substance, news which can bring meaning to our lives.  Like today’s headlines…..  “2 Yellowstone Workers Fired For Peeing In Geyser.”

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 14, 2009 at 5:29 pm Link to this comment

Evelyn Bechler, May 14 at 3:24 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

The Pope’s alleged “association” with the “Nazis”??
Are you people all insane or abysmally ignorant??
NEWSFLASH: THIS WAS A POLICE STATE-A DICTATORSHIP!!!
At 10(ten)years of age I,with other little girls of
my age HAD to join the JUNGMAEDELBUND(YOUNG GIRLS
LEAGUE)-no excuses.The same rules applied to boys-
at the age of 14 you would then be accepted in the
older Hitler Youth groups-AGAIN NO CHOICE.
How anyone can possibly tie that affiliation to the
“NAZIS"is absolutely diabolical and no doubt comes
out of the “POT STIRRERS” poison kitchens.
Hitler patterned the Hitler Youth group after the
BRITISH BOYS SCOUTS—(what a surprise,eh?) since he
admired the British (of course not the Churchill
regime). My short stint with the Jungmaedel group
ended when I was 12 (twelve)-at the end of the war
in 1945——-my dad,who was a stage actor at the time
had me join a young student’s theater group-which
was more fun for me and kept me from attending those
boring meetings.
Stop with these ridiculous Nazi allegations of the
Pope-gee,now we have to apologize for having been
born in Germany? Another insanity.
How about going after the Soviet atrocities for a
change—Stalin and his helpers must have had many
Soviet citizens to aid and abet HIS crimes-
Stamp out ignorance in this country-it’s about time.
Don’t flap your gums about things you don’t have a
CLUE about. I rest my case.

******************************************

Well put!

Now feel free to criticize Benedict for all the stupid, thoughtless and atavistic actions he has taken as pope, or even as a cardinal.  Now THAT is fair game!

Report this

By Evelyn Bechler, May 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

The Pope’s alleged “association” with the “Nazis”??
Are you people all insane or abysmally ignorant??
NEWSFLASH: THIS WAS A POLICE STATE-A DICTATORSHIP!!!
At 10(ten)years of age I,with other little girls of
my age HAD to join the JUNGMAEDELBUND(YOUNG GIRLS
LEAGUE)-no excuses.The same rules applied to boys-
at the age of 14 you would then be accepted in the
older Hitler Youth groups-AGAIN NO CHOICE.
How anyone can possibly tie that affiliation to the
“NAZIS"is absolutely diabolical and no doubt comes
out of the “POT STIRRERS” poison kitchens.
Hitler patterned the Hitler Youth group after the
BRITISH BOYS SCOUTS—(what a surprise,eh?) since he
admired the British (of course not the Churchill
regime). My short stint with the Jungmaedel group
ended when I was 12 (twelve)-at the end of the war
in 1945——-my dad,who was a stage actor at the time
had me join a young student’s theater group-which
was more fun for me and kept me from attending those
boring meetings.
Stop with these ridiculous Nazi allegations of the
Pope-gee,now we have to apologize for having been
born in Germany? Another insanity.
How about going after the Soviet atrocities for a
change—Stalin and his helpers must have had many
Soviet citizens to aid and abet HIS crimes-
Stamp out ignorance in this country-it’s about time.
Don’t flap your gums about things you don’t have a
CLUE about. I rest my case.

Report this
Leefeller's avatar

By Leefeller, May 13, 2009 at 5:50 pm Link to this comment

Taking in the whole picture as a topic to fret and worry over, this Pope article is almost equal in proportions to Ms. California and her simplistic opinions on how people should or should not live.  Both people have some notoriety and followers who would be influenced by their prognostications whatever they may be.

Stepping back both issues, the Popes past history or Ms California’s opinion on gay marriage, are really non issues and only distractions from more important issues which could effect the lives of people in the world.

Pope bashing and Ms California’s simplistic comments, can be amusing as a pastime entertainment for people like me, but when the rubber hits the road, it means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

In the end, these are only MSM guided distractions, for the masses to fret over, smoke and mirrors to hide what is obvisously going on under our noses.

Report this

By john, May 13, 2009 at 3:17 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

To worry about something he did as a child in a different world is diminshing the problematic stances he takes as the Pope.

Report this

By Observer, May 13, 2009 at 2:29 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

By NYCartist wrote ......
.....I’d prefer talk about the Vatican helping Nazis escape at the end of WWII to South America…....

No need to “reheat” discarded,rotten servings.

Much more important to talk about such timely events :
http://www.washington-report.org/
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2008/01/06/the-politics-of-an-israeli-bag-lady
http://www.prisonplanet.com/israel-arrests-journalist-critical-of-gaza-war.html

Report this

By artie, May 13, 2009 at 12:22 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Three violent, facist religions meet in Palestine, but each claims the same god, who urges and demands each commit genicide on the other two, which, if they had the power, they would cheerfully and completely oblige.

Report this

By Abu Ali, May 13, 2009 at 10:33 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

I am surprised people only assume IF one was anti Semite years ago, one is always will be. That is wrong, The German Pope is just a German Pope, he does not like Jews nor Muslims, but we (Muslims and Jews) live divide and rule planned by Europeans, alas, most of Israelis are European rather than Semitic Jews who related to Arabs.
What a world! As a Muslim who went Catholic school in Europe and now lives in US, this homosexual priest is American disease, because in this country we are obsessed with sex and not too many even know how to enjoy it, most of sexual encounters are fueled by alcohol as the wise Jerry Senfield said.
Let the old man in Peace, who cares if he was a German Nazi, I know worst racist, anti- Semites here in US and preaching day and night about the end which will happen….. guess, in Israel and Jews only converted ones will see the God kingdom, of course we Muslims will be roasted either in Katmandu with Buddhist or burn to eternity in special Gitmo.

Report this

By hippie4ever, May 13, 2009 at 9:18 am Link to this comment

In response to writers who believe it irrelevant that the current Pope (Benedict XVI) was a Nazi Youth:

1. Many youth in Austria and Germany were pressured into joining the Juggerand but many resisted. No one went to prison camp for saying “no” and many youth did just that, but not the Pope. He said “yes.”

2. Judging from Rat’s post-Nazi political affiliations, he consistently chose THE MOST CONSERVATIVE political parties legally allowed in Germany. Had he NOT been a Nazi sympathizer one would expect him to identify with a non-rightwing political agenda.

3. As Inquisitor, Rat defended pediophiles from prosecution and enabled their continuing abuse through transfers and denials.

4. As current Pope, he has pardoned Nazi sympathizers, insulted Jews and Muslims, not to mention women and lgbt peoples.

If it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Seig heil, Benedictus XVI.

Report this

By Jim Yell, May 13, 2009 at 8:35 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

One of the many hypocrisies of the Catholic establishment and the Pope is on record repeating it, is the statement that “he wants to rid the world of poverty” and then in the next breath makes condemenation of “Birth Control and states that women must carry all pregnancy to term”. These two statements are contradictory and will lead to mass starvation, oppression and war. He is a fool.

None of the Abrahamic Religions are free of this type of antisocial behavior. They all encourage an exaggerated sense of entitlement by the believers and dismiss the beliefs of others, they try to force civil law to validate their kooky dogma. Well they are entitled to worship anything they want from plaster saints to rocks, but they only speak for themselves and should leave the rest of us alone. A virtue that none of them have been able to live up too—-what with these contradictory scriptures are the whole truth of god, which means?—-that their god is a fool too.

Report this

By NYCartist, May 13, 2009 at 8:32 am Link to this comment

Wasn’t the now pope in the German military? He was said to have deserted because it was near the end of the war and Germany was about to lose. True? 

I’d prefer talk about the Vatican helping Nazis escape at the end of WWII to South America.

Report this

By jackpine savage, May 13, 2009 at 7:04 am Link to this comment

Don’t forget that Benedict’s last job title was Grand Inquisitor.

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 13, 2009 at 5:51 am Link to this comment

foggyjones, May 13 at 6:59 am #

i knew a little rich jewish nurse wh9 taujght a bayolor hospital and went to austria to be breed to keep the blood lines kosher. her so wasbprm pon christama day. wonder thte real day
jdthe real ddaddy even das her. she had a uber rich dadd in miami. i could have preg her but no the picked a sperm dooer, ajewsih doctor and few back to dfw. she was so proudto make the baber for her rich daddy. short, dark but but very secretive. thakes all kiknds huh.wh

******************************************

I TOLD you don’t drink and post!  Yikes!

Now are we supposed to extrapolate that this is a TYPICAL or ATYPICAL Jewish woman? 

Because MY wife is nothing like her.  But my SIL could make this woman look sane.

Report this
Purple Girl's avatar

By Purple Girl, May 13, 2009 at 4:43 am Link to this comment

The RATz reaffirmed his adherence to the Nazi ideology by reinstating those once ex communicated Holocaust Deniers.
Nostradamus was not a soothsayer- he was a man of deductive reasoning- knowing the vile men who sat on the Thrown of the Vatican (Taking the seat of Peter the usurping Heretic), one day the world would have the Freedom to turn their backs on the Romans Religion of oppression and persecution, without being burned or slaughtered.
No Doubt Ratz was a high ranker under John Paul who helped hide Child molesters for decades.
He has Dared Claimed Condoms promotes AIDS! so all those who are ‘Faithful’ are dumping their condoms and continuing to screw like bunnies. I’m surprised he didn’t say screwing young virgins (girls or boys) Would cure AIDS.
Instead of any meaningful input into any of the numerous problems facing the World Community- he’s send out edics on Cell Phone use.
Even as a Recovered Catholic, I had at least a positive view of John Paul even though I rejected the strict guilt ridden religious doctrine, but Ratz’s ranks with some of the most disgusting men whoever lived in that Guilded palace.The World is in economic meltdown, people are starving, Dying from diseases, the planet is in peril and yet the Vatican still sits on it’s wealth,expecting humanity to kiss his Ring.What not only typifies this Pontiffs attitude, but sums him up to a Tee…..‘Ratz Ass’.
The Vatican is the ‘Great Whore’...What the Evangelicals,and their kissing cousins the Islamic and Jewish extremeist, dream of being.All Deceivers, All the Scourge plaguing humanity for Millenia.
They have Tried to replace the “One and Only One’ with their particular sacred Idol- which amounts to heresy on two counts in Monotheism.Not to forget the other ‘golden rules’ they have broken along the way in that process.They have never been able to ‘Walk the Walk’, but it appears they have also given up even trying to appear like they can ‘Talk the Talk’.

Report this

By mmadden, May 13, 2009 at 3:26 am Link to this comment

People who are so concerned about a young man in 1945. Hope you did not do something in your youth that will later be regarded as despicable or wrong. As was mentioned in the comments what has he accomplished since the end of WW II? Surely the good deeds will appear brighter than any supposed past wronf doings?

Report this

By Inherit The Wind, May 12, 2009 at 9:37 pm Link to this comment

Joseph Alois Ratzinger?

Hmmmmm…..Adolph Hitler’s father’s name was…..

Alois Hitler!

Therefore Pope Benedict must have been named to honor Hitler and his father, Alois.

You can make up any crap you want. I, for one, do not believe that Pope Benedict XVI is anti-semitic.  In fact, he walked out on an anti-semitic rant by a Moslem cleric.  I do not believe Pope John Paul II would have elevated Ratzinger as far as he did if he suspected for a microsecond that he was anti-semitic.

I believe Pope Benedict XVI is merely a poor pope, and, as an old man, not long to hold the chair of Peter, and they’ll be picking a new Pope soon.  I don’t wish for his death, but, at 83 and sickly, it’s coming—it’s coming.

I kinda liked Pope John Paul I—for the month he was there.  He was kinda goofy, and looked in his whites like Harpo Marx in a morterboard!  But he actually changed the Church more in 30 days (for the good) than Benedict has done in 4 years.

Report this

By geronimo, May 12, 2009 at 6:32 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Alas, the Pope’s followers don’t care one whit about his nazi background, his homophobia, nor his denial to the elderly (and to those with diseases such as diabetes and kidney failure) of potentially life-extending developments by way of stem cell research.  What they care about is making it to the pie in the sky and they’ve been taught that he’s the key to getting there.  The good news, though, is that religiosity is down among our youth, so that with time, as religious superstition declines, totems such as Pope Benedict XVI will be less influential.

Report this
Leefeller's avatar

By Leefeller, May 12, 2009 at 5:09 pm Link to this comment

I for one,  am glad to find out the Pope was not a member of the KKK, even though his costume would suggest otherwise, only thing missing is a pointy hood. As a youth I was in the boy scouts, one should know that does not automatically mean I dislike gays.

Report this
photoshock's avatar

By photoshock, May 12, 2009 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment

Yet again, the Pope, at a moment of true social understanding, made the mistake of trying too hard to appease the masses. His understanding of the people is nada, zip, zilch, bupkus!  His whole life has been dedicated to enriching the Church and not thinking of the people.
Benedict cannot relate to the people of the world, he was the cardinal who before he became the Pope, that ran the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, more commonly called under the medieval times, the Inquisition.  He surrounded himself with like-minded people that would not dare disagree with the ‘chosen one.’  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, was and is the most defiant pope in the history of the church. He will not allow dissent in any form to rise
up.  His is a world where all men agree with him and his thoughts or else they are condemned to a life of poverty and no contact with the outside world.
Would you or any member of your family trust someone that cannot tell the whole truth regarding his association with the Nazis?  Would you trust someone that covered up the pedophile scandal? 
I cannot and do not have any faith in the hierarchy of the Roman Church, my faith is built on an understanding of a loving and merciful G-d, not a G-d of judgment and wrath.
In the end, my prayer is that all men will seek the salvation of their spirits and souls through G-d as the understand G-d.  Not through an organized religion or cult, whichever you prefer to call it, its all a moneymaking scam anyway.

Report this
Newsletter

sign up to get updates


 
 
 
 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
© 2013 Truthdig, LLC. All rights reserved.