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In reply to the discussion: I'm Really Getting to Respect this Pope [View all]louis c
(8,652 posts)from being the head of the NAACP.
You see, according to the Catholic Church, Christ was, well, Christ.
and, according to everyone else, Hitler was, well, an anti-Christ.
I don't want to continue to get into the weeds with this. I don't think Rentziger's Nazi connection would have kept him out of a political position, but I do think it disqualifies him from being the Pope.
The Pope is some sort of mythical position with a direct connection to the Almighty. Know all, omnipresent, no beginning, no end, knows the future and all that jazz type of supernatural being.
He (God himself) might have thought that his future spokesperson should have taken a more heroic position during WWII other than joining the Hitler Youth and manning an anti-aircraft gun for the Nazi regime. After all, John Paul II did have the more heroic, historical position on similar subjects.
Just a thought.