Habeamus Papam!!! (We Have a Pope!)

[matrixrefugee]

We Have A Pope!!!

Or, rather, because Benedict XVI, formerly known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, came from Germany, I should say:

Wir haben einen Papst!

Comments

[promeny.livejournal.com]

Do you like him being the new pope?

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Is this the part where I go Viva la Papa?

Or is reading Catholic comic books on the life of Pope John Paul II bad?

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Not at all! My mom has a copy of the 1980's Marvel Comics' biographical comic about John Paul II.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I'm excited: Ratzinger is a 'conservative' man, but he's very kind-hearted as well, much like John Paul II was.

[promeny.livejournal.com]

Yeah. But I hear that he was a former Hitler Youth 8(

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

He was only a kid during the early years of the war, and he really didn't have much choice in the matter: if you were a kid (of German ancestry, that is) living in Germany at the time, it was mandatory that you joined the Hitler Youth, or else you and your family would have been regarded as traitors to the Reich, and you risked being sent to a labor camp or worse. Later on, Ratzinger was forced to leave college and enter the German army... *but*, he deserted the army and let the Allies capture him.

[promeny.livejournal.com]

Oh, well now I see!