WILL THE USA ENFORCE ITS OWN LAW AGAINST THE POPE
Cardinal Josef Ratzinger has been selected the Pope of the Roman Catholic denomination by his fellow cardinals. Being an arch conservative, he is probably the best man to succeed the late pope, John Paul II. The great American historian, David Goldhagen in his book the Moral Reckoning refers to this particular pope in one of his chapters. Even the meticulous research by this Princeton trained historian did not lead to the discovery of the singgular fact that Ratzinger spent his entire youth as a card holding member ogf the Nazi youth wing. After his capture by the Americans in 1945 he resurfaced as a catholic priest. The point that David Goldhaen makes in the book cited above is that the higher establishment of the Catholic Church collaboreted with the Nazis during World War II. Not only that the banks and other financial establishments of the Roman Catholic church gained considerably by illegally acquiring the savings and other assets of the Jews who were being sent to the gas chambers by the Germans. In an earlier work, Goldhagen had shown that the guilt for the Holocaust rests with all Germans and not just with the SS and the members of the Nazi Party. Now that the truth of Pope Benedict XVI association with the Nazis has surfaced, it is time that the Roman Catholic Church is called to account for its criminal misdeeds right from the time of the Inquisition till the Holocaust. Violence, Greed and Crime have marched hand in hand with the padres of the Roman faith.
This brings me to another point. Soon after the defeat of Germany the US congress passed a Law banning the entry of Nazis into the territory of the USA. USA has surrendered nazis to Israeel even after they had acquired US citizenship, on the ground that a Nazi past made then ineligible to step foot on the soil of the USA. I am not veru sure whether this is the best way to de toxify a Nazi past, but the Law stands on the statute book. Will the Secretary of State dr Condoleeza Rice invoke this law to deny entry to Cardinal Ratninger in his new avatatra as a Catholic Pope. Afterall, Mark Tatcher was denied entry for a far lesser crime.