The New Pope!

[ken_cinder]

A black Pope?

HA! Thats about as likely to happen as meeting a straight one, or a straight priest for that matter.

You know damn well priests aren't straight, they like the same thing as Michael Jackson.......LITTLE BOYS!

OMFG, MJ is qualified to be a priest!

[Rag]

! The first moonwalking pope! He will ask god for a nose!

[Daeval]

pichures

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought he looked evil.

[Diso]

Congrats to our Beloved Holiness

[Ryuken]

damn nazi, WWIII is near!!! anyway i don't trust this new pope

[Alpha]

For the people who called him a nazi without doing any research...

Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927, in Marktl Am Inn, Germany. He was the son of a police officer who came from a traditional family of farmers in Lower Bavaria, according to his Vatican biography. Bavaria remains a heavily Catholic region of Germany.

 

He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, near the Austrian border, when the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler controlled Germany.

 

In his memoirs, Ratzinger wrote that school officials enrolled him in the Hitler Youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941.

 

Membership was compulsory and the officials enrolled his entire class, acting on orders from the Nazi regime, Allen said. Ratzinger said he was soon let out because of his studies for the priesthood.

 

According to Allen, his family was quietly strongly anti-Nazi, and his father took a series of less significant jobs to stay away from what was happening in Nazi Germany.

 

During World War II, Ratzinger was drafted into army in 1943, serving in an anti-aircraft unit that tracked Allied bombing raids.

 

He deserted in the waning months of the war in 1945 and returned to Traunstein, where he was taken prisoner by U.S. troops.

 

In June 1945, he was released from a POW camp and returned home, this time hitching a ride on a milk truck.

 

From 1946 to 1951, he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich and at another school in Freising.

 

He was ordained a priest in 1951. In 1953, he received his doctorate in theology. His doctoral thesis was entitled, "The People and House of God in St. Augustine's doctrine of the Church."

 

Four years later, he was qualified as a university teacher and taught dogma and fundamental theology at four different German universities.

 

In 1962, at age 35, he was a consultant during Vatican II to Cardinal Frings, a reformer who was the archbishop of Cologne, Germany.

 

Allen said that as a young priest Ratzinger was on the progressive side of theological debates, but began to shift right after the student revolutions of 1968.

 

In 1969, he was named professor of dogmatic theology and of the history of dogma at the University of Regensburg, where he was also named vice president.

I am not saying this is a good or bad pope, but do your research instead of following by one person's reply.

 

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19...file/index.html

[L.S.D]

Good or bad, it is all in the past.

We should look into the future instead of re-tracking back

Re-tracking back is only to learn from past mistakes.

[PLasticSlug]

so what... his name was in the same sentence as nazi... so there beoch!

 

to make this post semi not spam.... some one should look up why they elected this old bag, do they not want the popes to rule as long as the last one or somthing, I not too sure, but i think one pope lived only 33 days after becoming pope....

 

this is the dude..

http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/...f_johnpauli.htm

Edited April 20, 2005 by PLasticSlug

[Wizard]

(avoiding the long ass quote)

Still a Nazi. At least he's one of them happy go lucky Nazis.

[Dooz]

I've been told that the Hitler Youth became manditory 2 years after he joined. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.

[Gryph]

I've been told that the Hitler Youth became manditory 2 years after he joined. Whether that's true or not, I don't know.

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No. It became mandatory in 1938 which is 3 years before he joined. It happened the same year as the Gleichschaltung which was basically the set of laws that let the Nazi party control all aspects of society. In 1943 (2 years after he joined) it became a military reserve for ages 16+.

[Rag]

speaking of the hitler youths, swing kids was a horrid movie

[Gryph]

Another evil pope picture:

[O-Fear]

Edited April 20, 2005 by O-Fear

[Bluestinger X]

(avoiding the long ass quote)

Still a Nazi. At least he's one of them happy go lucky Nazis.

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nazi or pope.. who cares he still hates jews.