Some stories have it all... "Pope's brother defends his Holiness over Williamson holocaust scandal"

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I knew having the first Nazi Pope would be lively...

Pope's brother defends his Holiness over Williamson holocaust scandal

Georg Ratzinger slams Angela Merkel over criticism

Georg Ratzinger has defended his brother Pope Benedict XVI over his decision to rehabilitate Bishop Williamson, a Holocaust denier, into the Catholic Church - and slammed Angela Merkel for her criticism.

Williamson (68) was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in 1988 and has now been rehabilitated by Benedict XVI. He has often publicly denied the Holocaust, as well as airing other outrageous conspiracy theories.

“He doesn’t need me to defend him. But it angers me how unjust and badly informed the people who are attacking him are,” the Regensburg Music Director, 'Domkapellmeister', Georg Ratzinger told German newspaper ‘Leipziger Volkszeitung’. He finds the harsh criticism the Pope has received from people in his native Germany, as well as from the rest of the world, unjust: “We always speak about an informed society, when in reality it is uninformed.”

Georg Ratzinger (85) finds German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open criticism of the Pope particularly disappointing: “I always saw her as a rational woman. But perhaps at the moment she is under pressure to say something irrational.” Ratzinger says he speaks with his brother in the Vatican on the phone, but doesn't discuss the scandal: “We usually talk about personal things.”

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/02/04/pope-brother-georg-ratzinger-critcises-angela-merkel/over-bishop-williamson-holocaust-rehabilitation-scandal-criticism.html

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1. Merkel won this argument . . . Shame on Popey--!!!