Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi'

CNSNews.com ^ | April 17, 2008 | Melanie Hunter-Omar

[paterfamilias]

Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi' By Melanie Hunter-Omar CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 17, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday.

Catholic League President Bill Donohue received a phone call Thursday from an HBO executive regarding comments Maher made last Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."

As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Donohue said Maher "lied when he said the Pope 'used to be a Nazi.' Like all young men in Germany at the time, he was conscripted into a German Youth organization (from which he fled as soon as he could). Every responsible Jewish leader has acknowledged this reality and has never sought to brand the Pope a Nazi. That job falls to Maher."

Apparently HBO agreed with Donohue's assessment. "Apparently, now Maher does as well. Ergo, the apology," Donohue said.

So will the Catholic League accept Maher's apology?

"Assuming it comes across as genuine, the answer is yes. But I hasten to add that what we would really like to see is for Maher to stop with his hateful diatribes against the Catholic Church. So this is a start, but it hardly puts to rest our concerns," said Donohue.

"After all, there are plenty of factually accurate things Maher could say about other groups that would insult its members, but he chooses not to go there. Perhaps he can add Catholics and the Catholic Church to that protected list as well," he added.

[fortheDeclaration]

[“I am cancelling HBO right after John Adams tomorrow.”]

My thoughts, exactly

Now, that is what I call 'biting the bullet'.

LOL!

[fortheDeclaration]

The Hilter youth were the most fanatical Hilter supporters and gave our troops alot of trouble with terrorist tactics.

So, we are not talking about the boy scouts here.

[fortheDeclaration]

and was instrumental in the creation of the modern skinless bratwurst.

That is worthy of the Noble Peace prize!

[fortheDeclaration]

Give up, Doc, just accept that Pope Benedict XVI is a holy man, a learned theologian, the historical successor to Saint Peter, the Vicar of Christ on Earth.

And should be addressed as all Popes should be, as 'his most hellish father'.

[fortheDeclaration]

Your tracts are so powerful, I will have to convert. Where do I sign up?

See Acts.16:31.

[Barney59]

Sadly, I have little faith in any liberalesque apology. The pressure from his producers and distributors (Network = $) are the only catalysts here...

[Red Badger]

I always say "Nazi Socialist" to connect the lib to them. Always an interesting response. :-)

Try this: National Socialist Party of Germany, or NAZI for short........

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you for these illustrations. I’ve never seen anything like them. Striking and splendid!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Always hoping for a little opening to fair play, common decency, reasonable discussion: the "natural" virtues. After all, I don't believe in "total depravity." I'm a Catholic, not a Calvinist!

I pray for prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Things I have to strive for in myself, on a minute-to-minute basis.

[AnAmericanMother]

Arthur Syzk is sui generis. There is no other artist like him.

And he is a window into the vanished world of traditional European Jewry. He was a Pole who barely escaped Hitler -- he was in London trying to find a publisher for his Haggadah in September '39. His mother and her faithful housekeeper and companion (a Catholic) were exterminated.

[Petronski]

And should be addressed as all Popes should be, as 'his most hellish father'.

That level of hatred is a sickness. I will pray for your recovery.

[Petronski]

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

NOT-see-on-ahl-SOTE-see-ahl-ees-tish-eh DOYT-cheh AR-bye-ter-par-tie

National Socialist German Workers Party

[Petronski]

The Hilter youth were the most fanatical Hilter supporters and gave our troops alot of trouble with terrorist tactics.

The understanding of history displayed here is laughably inept.

[Red Badger]

Arbeiten macht frei.....

[Petronski]

[Red Badger]

Yes, I know the source........

[Petronski]

I did not mean to imply otherwise.

[AnAmericanMother]

Where do people get this fictitious history?

Watching Cabaret is not a substitute for actually reading an authoritative history of the runup to WWII.

[Red Badger]

It’s okay. I knew your point....

[Petronski]

But you had to know by now that we’re dealing with a different, darker kind of soul here.