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minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 days agoWell, during WW2 the Catholic church collaborated with them.
minus-squareBakkoda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·2 days agoJust a tiny little dot on the otherwise blemish free history of the Catholic Church.
minus-squareteawrecks@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours 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-squarelemmylump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 days agoEven smuggled them into Argentina
minus-squareIamSparticles@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day 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-up0·10 hours agoNeither of which was his choice. His ultraconservative, authoritarian opinions after that are his own fault, though, as is his protection of pedophile priests.
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.
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).
Even smuggled them into Argentina
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.