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minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoIt would forever change the sarcastic question “Is the Pope Catholic?”
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoWell, during WW2 the Catholic church collaborated with them.
minus-squareBakkoda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoJust a tiny little dot on the otherwise blemish free history of the Catholic Church.
minus-squareIamSparticles@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoPeople have already forgotten that Benedict XVI was literally a member of the Hitler Youth and a soldier in the German military.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoNeither of which was his choice. His ultraconservative, authoritarian opinions after that are his own fault, though, as is his protection of pedophile priests.
It would forever change the sarcastic question “Is the Pope Catholic?”
Is the Pope a Nazi?
Well, during WW2 the Catholic church collaborated with them.
Just a tiny little dot on the otherwise blemish free history of the Catholic Church.
They already had one of those.
People have already forgotten that Benedict XVI was literally a member of the Hitler Youth and a soldier in the German military.
Neither of which was his choice.
His ultraconservative, authoritarian opinions after that are his own fault, though, as is his protection of pedophile priests.