Didn’t help Ratzinger that he spent his whole career being the inquisitor attack dog of the Church’s right wing. My Mexican Jesuit friends called him “Nazinger

Didn’t help Ratzinger that he spent his whole career being the inquisitor attack dog of the Church’s right wing. My Mexican Jesuit friends called him “Nazinger” for his political actions as an adult, not for his past. German Catholics called him the “Panzerkardinal”.