• IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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    People have already forgotten that Benedict XVI was literally a member of the Hitler Youth and a soldier in the German military.

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      Neither of which was his choice.

      His ultraconservative, authoritarian opinions after that are his own fault, though, as is his protection of pedophile priests.