Ratzinger is the one who should be sorry.
But Rome never repents.
Sigh.
How many self-righteous mind-sets are given to repentance in any group, belief system, . . .
Certainly the faithfully convinced
of the ONE TRULY TUREST TRULY TRUE CLUB . . .
In 1941, German "therapists" arrived at the boy's home and took him away -- telling his parents of the new governmental regulations against mentally disabled children living at home.
Despite pleas from the boy's family, German officials took him away and he later became a victim of the genocide that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of handicapped people during the war.
That same year, at age 14, Joseph Ratzinger refused to go to Hitler Youth meetings despite the fact that his whole class had been signed up automatically via compulsory enrollment.
So just to knock the Nazi charge out of the way (again), here's what the Jerusalem Post had to say about it:
By Sam Ser, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 18, 2005
London's Sunday Times would have us believe that one of the leading contenders for the papacy is a closet Nazi. In if-only-they-knew tones, the newspaper informs readers that German-born Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth during World War II and suggests that, because of this, the "panzer cardinal" would be quite a contrast to his predecessor, John Paul II.
...[But]As the Sunday Times article admits, Ratzinger's membership in the Hitler Youth was not voluntary but compulsory; also admitted are the facts that the cardinal – only a teenager during the period in question – was the son of an anti-Nazi policeman, that he was given a dispensation from Hitler Youth activities because of his religious studies, and that he deserted the German army.... "Keeping out of the Hitler Youth was difficult because the tuition reduction, which I really needed, was tied to proof of attendance at the Hitler Youth,"[said Ratzinger]
"Thank goodness there was a very understanding mathematics professor. He himself was a Nazi, but an honest man, and said to me, 'Just go once to get the document so we have it...' When he saw that I simply didn't want to, he said, 'I understand, I'll take care of it' and so I was able to stay free of it."
So, automatically registered with the Nazi Youth together with everybody else in his class, he had the --- nerve --- at age 14, to tell a Nazi teacher that he refused to go to even one meeting!
And drafted into the German Army, he deserted at the risk of being caught and shot. (I honestly wonder whether my boys --- or I myself --- would ever be able to find such courage.)
Let me remind you that as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981–2005, Ratzinger was dubbed “God’s Rotweiler" beause of his active opposition to marxist liberation theology. Fox News did a special on that a couple of years ago: 2005, I think it was.
Daniel Maguire, a pro-abortion Marquette professor and protégé of the disgraceful sodomite retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland (Milwaukee), has made it his particular campaign to try to force Benedict's resignation from the papacy, or at least to smear him badly enough so that his strong stand against homosexuality, abortion, and liberation theology would be decisively undermined.
That's what the atheists Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, along with their left-wing doppelgangers in the Catholic Far Left, are doing as we speak. With a little help from their friends: you know who you are.