Quit spreading slander! His father was an anti-Nazi who was forced to move his family to get away from them.
It would be slander if it was about t he current Pope, but his father was in fact a Nazi in his youth
Cardinal Ratzinger's father was an officer in the state police ... as was his wife
http://www.petersnet.net/browse/663.htm
Catholic Document Library
www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=663
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Ratzinger's father retires and his family moves to Hufschlag, outside the city of Traunstein
{So he repented later,on that you are correct}
http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/Biography.html
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The sins of the Father were absolved through him, as the current Pope fought communism in Germany
Some of the new Pope's ideology:
"I'm not the Grand Inquisitor," Cardinal Ratzinger once said in an interview. But to the outside world, he has been known as the Vatican's enforcer. He made the biggest headlines when his congregation silenced or excommunicated theologians, withdrew church approval of certain books, helped rewrite liturgical translations, set boundaries on ecumenical dialogues, took over the handling of clergy sex abuse cases against minors, curbed the role of bishops' conferences and pressured religious orders to suspend wayward members.
Sometimes his remarks have been bluntly critical, on such diverse topics as dissident theologians, liberation theology, "abuses" in lay ministry, homosexuality, women as priests, feminism among nuns, premarital sex, abortion, liturgical reform and rock music.
"I'm not the Grand Inquisitor," Cardinal Ratzinger once said in an interview. But to the outside world, he has been known as the Vatican's enforcer. He made the biggest headlines when his congregation silenced or excommunicated theologians, withdrew church approval of certain books, helped rewrite liturgical translations, set boundaries on ecumenical dialogues, took over the handling of clergy sex abuse cases against minors, curbed the role of bishops' conferences and pressured religious orders to suspend wayward members.
We who did not live there during that time, or live through those days at all, have no way of knowing the anguish many suffered under that regime. If the people who now are so opposed to the Nazis had acted then, before Hitler became so powerful and his insane leadership went unchallenged for so long, the world would have been much different.
I hope that"JustPiper", who appears to have a problem with something that Pope Benedict XVI was forced into and had no way to control when he was young, will now take an active role against the Nazi movements in America, speak out against them,and leave the Pope alone. Pick your targets wisely!