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minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up76·7 days agoIt would forever change the sarcastic question “Is the Pope Catholic?”
minus-squareIamSparticles@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 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-up4·6 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.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up17·7 days agoWell, during WW2 the Catholic church collaborated with them.
minus-squareteawrecks@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoYeah my first thought was, I wonder if a historian can tell us how many Popes throughout history have been objectively worse than Trump for society (so far).
minus-squareBakkoda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·7 days agoJust a tiny little dot on the otherwise blemish free history of the Catholic Church.
minus-squarelemmylump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-27 days agoEven smuggled them into Argentina
It would forever change the sarcastic question “Is the Pope Catholic?”
Is the Pope a Nazi?
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.
Well, during WW2 the Catholic church collaborated with them.
Yeah my first thought was, I wonder if a historian can tell us how many Popes throughout history have been objectively worse than Trump for society (so far).
Just a tiny little dot on the otherwise blemish free history of the Catholic Church.
Even smuggled them into Argentina
They already had one of those.