Posted on 04/19/2005 10:03:07 AM PDT by Dallas59
Negative piece, but he was indeed a german soldier. He was forced into the Hitler youth and later deserted the regular army in spring 1944.
Well, I beleive that was the problem. The Cardinals wanted to pick a Pope from the 3rd World, but too many of them did have Marxist sympathies under the banner of "Social Justice." Maybe this will send a message to them.
Read The Forgotten Soldier by Paul Sajer. It tells the story of an Alsatian who was dragooned into the Wehrmacht in the autumn of 1942 and ended up in the Panzergrendadierregiment Grossdeutschland. His unit was at Belgorad on the southern shoulder of the Kursk salient when operation Zitadelle began. Right next to the Grossdeutschland were battalions of Hitlerjugend who had been specially trained to infiltrate "Ivan's" positions.
The Belgorad offensive became a disaster after several days, of course, but it would be interesting to know Ratzinger's unit history in the Wehrmacht. At the close of the war, units in the West began to collapse as the Americans and the British approached. Germans understood that they could surrender to the Anglo-Americans. Units in the East stayed together under the most trying circumstances, as surrender meant death or Siberia.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Sounds like the guy has a pair of brass ones. If things don't work out in Rome, perhaps W can offer him a job at Homeland Security.
Ratzinger and two theologians die and go two heaven. One by one they go in and meet with God. The first theologian goes in and comes out crying, "How could I have been so wrong about everything?!?!"
Then the second theologian goes in, and comes out crying too, "How could I have been so wrong about everything?!?!".
Then Ratzinger goes in, they're in there for a while, then God comes out crying, "How could I have been so wrong about everything?!?!"
Hopefully he brings the heat on the baby-killer abortionists, sick priests who have sex with children, deviant gay marriage, and all those "progressive" causes that popular culture wants to pollute our society with.
May he live a long and productive life. And may he be outspoken in his opposition to the above deviance.
From an article in the Kiplinger Report:
"On Monday, Ratzinger, who was the powerful dean of the College of Cardinals, used his homily at the Mass dedicated to electing 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."
Who can argue about that???
Jesus founded His Church on Peter the Rock not Peter the poll taker.
bumping for later reading
Quite easily. Toward the end of the war, German troops were either dead or deployed all over the place. Hitler called up old men and young boys, some as young as 12, to defend the "glorious fatherland."
"...Jesus founded His Church on Peter the Rock not Peter the poll taker...."
Damned straight! Excellent point. God bless Pope Benedict XVI.
I am a recovering catholic myself, but already love this guy! I also loved JP2.
Canadians will be seeing it many, many times.
"What a smear job. He was born in 1927. WWII ended when he was 18. How could he have served in the German army?"
At the end of the war, germans were recruiting 14 year olds.
Cardinal Ratzinger who is now the pope, talks like a conservative but if anything he is more loberal, (if that is possible), than John Paul was.
How so?
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