Pope's Brother calls Chancellor Angela Merkel “stupid and ill-informed”

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Pope’s brother derided the German Chancellor as “irrational” today after Angela Merkel became the first world leader to criticise the Vatican for welcoming a Holocaust denier back into the church.

Georg Ratzinger, a Roman Catholic priest, said his brother’s critics were “stupid and ill-informed” for suggesting that Pope Benedict XVI was wrong to rehabilitate an ultra-conservative British bishop who denies that millions of Jews were killed under Adolf Hitler.

Mrs Merkel issued an extremely rare public rebuke of the Pope insisting that she did not believe there had been sufficient clarification of the pontiff’s views. “This should not be allowed to pass without consequences,” she said.



Mr Ratzinger, 85, stepped into the dispute after the Chancellor won widespread praise for speaking out. “I always saw her as a rational woman. But perhaps at the moment she is under pressure to say something irrational,” he said in an interview to appear in tomorrow’s edition of the Leipziger Volkszeitung.




http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5661105.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

[BootinUp]

1. hilarious. nt

[dbonds]

2. There's 2 of them? On no!

[anonymous171]

3. Hopefully this will sink Ratz.

Or at least hamper his plans to destroy Vatican II.

[Greyhound]

6. I didn't think a Pope could be sunk.(?) n/t

[anonymous171]

19. They can resign. nt

[nichomachus]

4. 1...2...3...4... Springtime for Hitler and Germany . . .

come on gang -- all together

[Soylent Brice]

12. i'll dance with ya!

[nichomachus]

15. Let's all join in

[damntexdem]

5. Well, there's usually one in any family of any size:

the family idiot. What a shame that the Ratzinger family has at least two. ;-)

[Canuckistanian]

7. I thought those guys wore white hats

You know, like these:

[GodlessBiker]

8. What an idiot. He looks like he's wearing a gunny sack or something.

[dembotoz]

9. i know i am supposed to be tolerant and all, but this pope guy is a bit wacko

i was born a prot
will always be a prot

just could never abide the pope thing.

and i have tried,
Sorry if i offended--not my intent.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. You go girl

The Chancellor was right on target to say that. As a catholic myself I was surprised by his actions. Of course I can't stand the ego tripping pope. He tells us how we should live. Yet the pope goes around wearing prada shoes and expensive habits. Shame on the church. I lost my respect for the church.

[Donnachaidh]

11. perhaps this old coot needs to be retired?

Have you noticed that old farts like this pretty much always call women *irrational* if they happen to say something they disagree with?

[truebrit71]

13. Who knew that the pope AND his brother were nazi-sympathizers?

..:sarcasm:

[Betsy Ross]

14. Thank you Chancellor Merkel.

Although I said I would cut my use of profanity after the inauguration, this is a special case. FUCK both Ratzingers.

[burythehatchet]

16. Dude, your brother is one fugly pope

[gratuitous]

17. Stupid and ill-informed, are we?

So, are you willing to educate us, Georg, or are you content to just call names? I think there have been many substantive criticisms of Pope Benedict XVI's actions, and even the Vatican seems to be trying to distance itself from the Pope. Do you have a valid response, or is it enough for you to throw a childish tantrum?

[surrealAmerican]

18. It sounds like he knows all about "stupid and ill-informed"...

... from personal experience.