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What comes now after the death of Pope Francis? (www.bbc.com)

submitted 5 days ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

All the things you can critique him for, as well as the church in general, and you choose the thing that children were basically forced to participate in under a fascist regime? The dude clearly wasn’t a Nazi and he was a kid.

Where did you read I was criticizing B16 for being a Hitler youth? All I said was that his - definitely forced - stint there gave him the experience to deal with fascist authoritarian figures.

B16 should be at the receiving end of many criticisms - not least of which choosing to be part of, and ultimately lead a disgusting religious cult. But being forced to join the Hitler Youth is not one of them.