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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Bottom line -- with all he saw: coughing, sick, starving workers in his unit, Jews being herded into camps, the Ratzingers took nobody under their wing. They split for their country digs and hid out like a bunch of pussies.
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Not that a Vatican II baby like me is thrilled with the election of an arch-conservative as pope, but he
was a teenager at the time.
And if Saul the persecutor of early Christians can become Paul the great evangelist, and if Augustine and Francis of Assisi can turn from sinfully wicked youths into holy men, then a kid who didn't run an extraordinary risk to help Jews in 1945 can possibly have become a better person since then.
In short, I think that he's a bad choice (but I hope I am wrong) on his theology and his lack of tolerance for respectful dissent, not because of his history.
