Re the Polish Archbishop mess

[malaise]

How come the pope can be a young Nazi but the Archbishop resigns an hour before his installation because he was a communist collaborator. Guess if he was just an old pedophile he would be Archbishop now. The catholic church is corrupt beyond belief.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6238165.stm

Edit: change word

[hedgehog]

1. Were you aware that the Catholic Church ordained women and married

men in the 70's in Czechoslovakia so an underground church would survive in the event of a Communist crackdown? I sure wish that the Catholic Church in the US would come under attack. RIght now we're seeing the hierarchy close parishes rather than ordain women and married men!

[malaise]

2. What a pity

the sooner the CC disappears the better. They have always been on the wrong side of humanity.

[xchrom]

3. that's a real george w bush style view of history.

your own narrow view is the only view.

i critisize the cc very harshly -- but that statement or yours is just stupid.

[hedgehog]

6. You're making the same mistake the Pope and other bishops are making.

"The Catholic Church" is not just the hierarchy, it's all of us.

[malaise]

7. It's not me at all

I left that corrupt institution decades ago. They propped up every dictator in Latin America. Shall I go on. On whose behalf did all the indigenous people of this hemisphere die?

Add.

[baldguy]

4. Being a communist is apparently worse than being a Nazi.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Not that I'm defending the current Pope,

but it's my understanding that he was a child at the time he joined the Hitler Youth, and didn't really have much of a choice. It's my understanding that the Polish fellow collaborated with a repressive communist regime as a freely choosing adult.

I have many issues with Pope Rat, but his situation of being a child growing up in Nazi Germany is nowhere near the biggest. It's not really any of my business, since I'm not Catholic, I'm just saying that I can see where the distinction here makes some kind of sense.