True, he was in a "youth organiztion", but surely this is an indication of their underlying racist beliefs...
2007-07-27 04:39:06 · 7 answers · asked by nom de paix 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As long as the man isnt spewing neo-nazi rhetoric, I dont care. He can be pope, my mechanic, or a dishwasher at DQ.
What is the office of Pope that we should be concerned over to begin with? Just more fun creative church tradition created by our mary-worshipping friends, the Catholics.
2007-07-27 11:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
+ The Pope +
As a teenager and young man, Pope Benedict XVI was drafted into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi German Army just like every other non-Jewish German male. He was not given a choice.
The Pope is not and never has been a Nazi. He unfortunately was born and grew up in a country ruled by the Nazi party.
Every draftee into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi German Army was not a Nazi.
Thank God that you and I live in a very different world that the Pope did in 1930s and 1940s Germany. Or do we?
+ Racism +
Racism is against the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church:
Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity.
The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it:
Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.
For more information, see Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1934 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt2art3.htm#1934
+ Some statistics about the Catholic Church +
The 270 million Catholics of African descent represent about 25% of the one billion Roman Catholics throughout the world in more than 59 countries.
Most Black Catholics are in Africa. However there are about 3 million in the United States.
Black Catholic statistics: http://www.nbccongress.org/black-catholics/worldwide-count-black-catholics-01.asp and http://www.usccb.org/saac/AfricanAmericanCatholicsintheUS.pdf
+ With love in Christ.
2007-07-27 23:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh hogwash.
At age, 14 membership in Germany's "Hitler Youth" became mandatory. So Joseph Ratzinger enrolled. Despite being a member, he refused to attend any meetings. Attendance would have reduced the cost of his schooling at the seminary, yet this did not deter him.
He managed to get out early so he could study for the priesthood.
Two years later, when he was 16, Ratzinger was drafted again by the German Army.
Ratzinger worked as a helper in an anti-aircraft briagde.
In 1945, he was put through basic training and stationed near his hometown in Bavaria.
When Allied forces advanced, he deserted the German army — risking death by that act alone.
After he escaped, Ratzinger was captured by American soldiers and spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp.
Neither Ratzinger nor any member of his immediate family joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party). Ratzinger’s father was critical of the Nazi government, and as a result the family had to move four times before he was ten years old. It’s not as though they passively and quietly accepted what is going on, as many other families did.
2007-07-27 11:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you realize that Paul, the person who wrote the majority of the New Testament was responsible for the killing and persecution of the first Christians?
The Lord is able to change the heart of even the most wicked sinner such as Paul. May He bring about a change in your heart and mine.
2007-07-27 11:53:13 · answer #4 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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Because most of the Nazis were Christians. Here's the colour chart the Pope would have learned.
Black - lesbians, retards, alcoholics, anarchists
Pink - male homosexuals
Purple - Jehovah's witnesses
Red - communists, freemasons, socialists
Yellow - non Aryans (mostly Jews)
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2007-07-27 11:42:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, but people change. If you read what he has said, he wasn't really a Nazi. Do you believe that people can be sorry for what they have done?
2007-07-27 15:54:26 · answer #6 · answered by cameoseashell 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe its because he was around during that time and it was either join or die?
2007-07-27 11:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by danzahn 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋