The Pope (Joseph Alois Ratzinger) - Saint or Sinner?

Question

O don't be stupid... report me for this and you're a judgementalist, hateful UN-Christian Bigot, with no sense of humour or irony, or just plain No Sense... just like the Yahoostapo who adjudicate on these matters!

Following his fourteenth birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was enrolled in the Hitler Youth (a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party) - membership being legally required after December 1936.[2] -, but was an unenthusiastic member and refused to attend meetings. His father was a bitter enemy of Nazism, believing it conflicted with the Catholic faith. In 1941, one of Ratzinger's cousins, a child with Down syndrome, was killed by the Nazi regime in its campaign of eugenics. In 1943 while still in seminary, he was drafted at age 16 into the German anti-aircraft corps. Ratzinger then trained in the German infantry, but a subsequent illness precluded him from the usual rigors of military duty. As the Allied front drew closer to his post in 1945, he returned to his family's home in Traunstein after his unit had ceased to exist, just as American troops established their headquarters in the Ratzinger household. As a German soldier, he was put in a POW camp but was released a few months later at

the end of the War in summer 1945. He re-entered the seminary, along with his brother Georg, in November of that year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI#Early_life_.281927.E2.80.931951.29

So that should put paid to any rumours of him being a genuine Nazi... he was obviously NOT a Nazi... obviously... too much of a pacifist to want to fight... obviously not a Nazi... not at all... no way, no how!

Answer 1

Definitely a sinner. He may not be a Nazi , but he is one evil S.O.B. He is known to have personally covered up the sexual abuse of hundreds of poor innocent children by his own priests. Anyone who does that deserves everything they get. He is a leader of a very corrupt organisation.

Answer 2

Are you relating Pope Benedict XVI or is that Cliff Clavin's real call as properly? As an regularly occurring Roman Catholic, the 1st individual who got here to my ideas once you gave that call replaced into Pope Benedict XVI, and then I regarded the call of Cliff Clavin of "Cheers" recognition, when you consider that i replaced into such keen on that prepare. i'm hoping you probably did no longer advise any disrespect to His Holiness, our cutting-edge Pope Benedict XVI. I pray you probably did no longer. yet then, Cliff Clavin's real call is John Ratzenberger, so what supplies including your question? God Bless you.

Answer 3

If Ratzinger`s side had triumphed, would he have become Pope? Seig Heil Mary ?

Answer 4

He's like George Bush junior. He punished those who stepped out of line. Pope is his reward for that.

Answer 5

All believers are saints innit ummm so if he does believed on the Lord Jesus Christ then he is a saint. But we are all born into sin so he is also a sinner but forgiven if he has confessed his sin and changed his mind about it. Of course he will continue to sin but has to keep confessing to stay in fellowship with God.

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Answer 6

A human being, persecuted by rabid Muslims

Answer 7

Who said there were no opportunities for former members of the Hitler Youth? :)

Answer 8

The Pope is a human being

Answer 9

He served his country and his fuerher as a Hitler Youth fighter so he cannot be all bad can he.

Answer 10

Everyone is a sinner. No-one is perfect or sin free, just be grateful that God is forgiving.