Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany Is New Pope

Yahoo AP ^ | 19th April 2005 | WILLIAM J. KOLE

[ArmyBratproud]

Wow! Watching the tv. St. Peter's Square is packed!

Very exciting to see.

I'll remember this.

[EagleUSA]

...the next pope to warn the faithful about tendencies that he considered dangers to the faith: sects, ideologies like Marxism, liberalism, atheism, agnosticism and relativism — the ideology that there are no absolute truths....
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Oh, this is going to drive the radical leftists and the MSM crazy!!! They will attack the choice of this man...just watch!! They will begin to belittle his choice right away, most like starting with the fact he is older, which just implies "his philosphies are just temporary, and of little consequence to the MODERN WORLD"... we are going to hear the whining of the socialists....

[conservlib]

That is very low.

[CatoRenasci]

Biggest concern for me about Ratzinger is whether or not he will increase the Church's hostility to capitalism in general and the United States in particular. I have never heard he was a friend of either or particularly comfortable with American-style separation of church and state.

[demkicker]

The DUmmies and their ilk are going nuts because Ratzinger was once enrolled in the Hitler Youth. I guess all Germans from that era are guilty in their eyes.

I got this from LauraleeBraswell:

Ratzinger isn't a Nazi

Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn, in Bavaria, the son of a police officer who was staunchly anti-Nazi. In 1937 Ratzinger's father retired and settled in the town of Traunstein. When Ratzinger turned 14 in 1941, he was required by law to join the Hitler Youth , but according to his biographer John Allen he was not an enthusiastic member. In 1943, at the age of 16 he was, along with the rest of his class, drafted into the Flak or anti-aircraft corps, responsible for the guarding of a BMW plant outside Munich. He was then sent for basic infantry training and was posted to Hungary, where he worked setting up anti-tank defences until he deserted in April 1944 (an offence punishable by death). In 1945 he was briefly held in an Allied POW camp. By June he was released, and he and his brother (Georg) entered a Catholic seminary. On June 29, 1951, they were ordained by Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich. His dissertation (1953) was on Saint Augustine, his Habilitationsschrift (second dissertation) on Saint Bonaventure.

[television is just wrong]

It is done.

[Melpomene]

What they forget to mention is that membership was mandatory for all young people at the time he joined.

[tfecw]

The Mormons don't seem to have a problem with tithing and membership.

Besides, Germans are used to having their paychecks taken away from them.

[scrabblehack]

BTW, did you know that Germany deducts your tithes from your paycheck if you register as a member of a church?

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Is the money sent to the church or does the government keep it???

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That is very low.

Low things for low people.

[protest1]

You bet!!

This will also drive the EU nuts. They hate conservative Catholics and they are effectively forbidden from involvement in EU politics. They will not get on very well with the new Pope!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041011/325/f4cq9.html

[conservlib]

The libs are going to be mad! HAHAHAHAHA!

Let them eat sh*t. This PC business cannot be exported to people who are still blessed with COMMON SENSE!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Little-noted fact: lots of southern Germans - Bavarians, et al - are Catholic.

[Unam Sanctam]

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a hard-line guardian of conservative doctrine...

Gee, AP's not being biased here, is it?

[Minnesocold]

I'll tune in tonight's "LardBall" to see Mathews spew later tonight. Now, on to DU to read their rantings.

I'm praying for our new Pope - he is exactly what we need.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Ratzinger isn't a Nazi ....

Simply being in the Hitler Youth never qualified anyone as a Nazi. The entire process was compulsory, beginning at a time when the worst excesses of Nazism had yet to be revealed. One can't visit upon adults what they were forced to do as minors, though no doubt some of this new Pope's enemies will try.

[karnage]

"Will there really be a schism?"

NO.

[karnage]

I read somewhere that he was quoted as saying that during Vatican II he was regarded as a liberal or reformer, but that the Church has moved so far leftward in the past 40 years that now he's a conservative.

Hmm... sounds like Reagan!

[TAdams8591]

Agreed!!!!!

[dfwgator]

These same DUmmies didn't have a problem when a real Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, became Secretary General of the UN.