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By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:28:43 +0000

let’s not forget that Ratzinger was one of the closest advisors to the late Pope and we can only expect him to carry on in his footsteps, which were by in large friendly to the Jews.

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:46:06 +0000

Ooops, wrong post.

By: shtreimel

shtreimel — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:45:55 +0000

I agree with Janice. Esther’s quite witty.

How many men agree that a woman who can make you laugh is a woman worth keeping? Raise your hands…

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:41:24 +0000

You shouldn’t pick on Esther. She’s been writing awesome posts while you’ve been AWOL.

By: ck

ck — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:34:30 +0000

Josh: I was just sayin its ironic, that’s all.

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:54:42 +0000

Josh, no worries. I don’t feel attacked. I just wanted to make clear that I was trying to be more unbiased in the post, and it came across like I was chanting “Ratzinger’s a Nazi! Ratzinger’s a Nazi” on the playground.

If anything, I hope that this blip on his past from age 14 (a year beyond “gil mitzvot”–how many bar mitzvah boys do you know who take contrarian perspectives?) will spur him to do more good works and become a positive force in the world. I may be overoptimistic on this, but maybe that won’t undermine his legacy, but rather strengthen it.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:42:07 +0000

ck, you are suggesting that Ratzinger should have resisted? Surely that’s alot to ask of a 14 year old, and we’re going to hold it against him when he’s an old man?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:40:29 +0000

Esther, I didn’t mean to be attacking you specifically or anything like that. It’s just very frustrating to me, because Benedict-16 might end up with a “Nazi” murmur that will undermine any good things he does during his papacy.

By the way, why is it objectionable in itself that he’s from Germany? Surely we don’t think that theologians should discriminate based on country of origin?

By: ck

ck — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:39:27 +0000

Bryan: Read this from the New York Post:

He and his brother were later drafted but deserted. The cardinal claims he never fired a shot and that resistance would have meant death. Not so, Germans from his hometown of Traunstein told The Times of London. "It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others," recalled Elizabeth Lohner, 84. "The Ratzingers were young — and they had made a different choice."