Bite your tongue! The last thing we need is an American pope and especially not Bishop Wilton Gregory. However, it is possible that we may see white smoke for a black pope.
Francis Cardinal Arinze
You DO know Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth when he was a kid, don't you?
That should disqualify him entirely. No church needs an authoritarian with a Germanic name running it.
Its time for an American Pope and a Black one at that. Wilton Gregory would make a great Pope.
Pope Shaka I
Bite your tongue! The last thing we need is an American pope and especially not Bishop Wilton Gregory. However, it is possible that we may see white smoke for a black pope.
Francis Cardinal Arinze
You DO know Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth when he was a kid, don't you?
LOL! No secret that for every German youth membership in the Hitler Youth Group was manditory - no options to decline membership.
Sewald: Were you ever in the Hitler Youth?Ratzinger: At first we weren't, but when the compulsory Hitler Youth was intruduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join. I was still too young, but later as a seminarian, I was registered in the HY. As soon as I was out of the seminary, I never went back. And that was difficult, because the tuition reduction, which I really needed (his family was very poor) was tied to proof of attendance at the HY. Thank goodness there was a very understanding mathematics professor. He himself was a Nazi, but an honest man and said to me "Just go once get the document so we have it..." When he saw that I simply didn't want to, he said. " I understand, I'll take care of it" and so I was able to stay free of it.