Sigh...
Go back and read my post again. The liberals did not want Ratzinger to become Pope. They said it was time to elect a liberal Pope, rather than Ratzinger.
The liberal press made a lot of outrageous claims about Ratzinger. The same people have reported blatant lies about George W. They also attributed to Sarah Palin, things said by Tina Fey during an SNL skit. Furthermore, they completely ignored Obama’s and Biden’s gaffs while exagerating any conservative.
A lie that pleases your ear is still a lie.
The vast majority of the press Ratzinger has gotten is glowing. John Allen, Ratzinger's biographer, also works for CNN. And no one has given a pass to Ratzinger like Allen has.
Several years ago discriminating articles were easier to find. These days the web has been nearly swept clean of the uncomfortable truth and all that's left is treacly revisionism. Here's an interesting article, until it's pulled...
ANALYSIS: THE POPE AND HITLER YOUTH
Berger, now 81, was ordained a Catholic priest alongside Joseph Ratzinger and his brother, Georg, in 1951 in the beautiful church in the center of the town where they all grew up together. But there was something that set their two families apart. Berger's family sympathized with the Catholic resistance to Nazism in the town. Rupert was the same age as Joseph Ratzinger and at 14 years old he refused to join Hitler Youth. His family suffered as a result. He told me in an interview in 2005 that his father was sent to Dachau. He returned after the war and became the mayor. Ratzinger's father was a policeman. The family was never affiliated with the Nazi party. But the Ratzingers chose to go with the vast majority of Germany and acquiesce to the regulations requiring 14 year olds to join Hitler Youth. They wanted to survive and allow their two sons to focus on academics in the seminary. So Ratzinger and his brother joined at 14 and went through with the parades and the salutes to the Fuehrer. Ratzinger also served briefly with a German army anti-aircraft unit just before the end of the war. When I interviewed Berger in April 2005, just after Ratzinger had been elevated to the papacy, he spoke well of Ratzinger's intellect and discipline as a young man. But he said he couldn't understand why Ratzinger had insisted for so long in so many public statements that no one had a choice but to join Hitler Youth. "It was a hard time to live, and there were hard choices to make," Berger said. He was too modest or polite, or perhaps uncertain about what to tell a reporter who landed on his doorstep, to state his opinion about the new pope's choices any more clearly. But what I took away from the interview and my research in the town was that the pope's repeated assertion that he had no choice but to join Hitler Youth was simply not true. In fact, the statement is an insult to the memory and the lives of those who did resist Nazism and those who did refuse to join the organizations that were formed to perpetuate its power......But one man who knows some of the hidden truths in the pope's hometown of Traunstein is Father Rupert Berger, and his story deserves telling.
I see how Dr. E misread the post.
What the liberals were objecting to was a conservative being a pope. They were saying that now it’s time for a liberal to be a pope, instead of cheering that YEA! Now a liberal is a pope.