230,000 Attend Pope’s Mass in Germany
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for 230,000 people Tuesday in a sunny field outside Regensburg, taking his homecoming tour of his native Bavaria to the university town where he once taught theology. Pilgrims carrying flags and folding chairs streamed into the field to cheer as Benedict rode slowly through the crowd, waving on his way to the canopied altar platform….The 79-year-old pope is making a nostalgic, six-day trip to Germany’s Roman Catholic stronghold, the region where he served as archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982.
What happens when a German Cardinal, a former Nazi, is appointed Pope, the earthly representative of God and the head of the Catholic Church. Yeah, I don’t know, either, but the comparisons between a German Pope in Regensburg ministering to hundreds of thousands of Teutonic sycophants and a German Fuhrer in Nuremberg ministering to hundreds of thousands of Teutonic sycophants is just too good to pass up, isn’t it? The more things change, the more they…ah, fuhgeddaboudit…
Of course, it’s no secret that I’ve long had issues with the Catholic Church (not Catholics, mind you…just their Church, that miserably corrupt and venal institution of repression and mind control). Given Pope Benedict XVI’s Nazi background, you’d think that the College of Cardinals would have been sensitive to the appearance created by electing Joseph Ratzinger as the successor to John Paul II, who wasn’t exactly the living emboidment of open-mindedness himself.
Yes, if you close your eyes and listen carefully, you can almost hear the goose-stepping….
