It wasn’t a surprise to me that Cardinal Ratzinger (now our very own winner in the Vatican demolition-derby to elect the next Pope, a feat probably made easier by the fact that Ratzie was Pope-By-Proxy during the last decade of JPII’s reign, but whatever) was once a member of the Nazi Party until it was “safe” to desert–in 1945.

But Gunter Grass a former member of the Waffen SS? That was news to me.

At least he gets to keep his Nobel Prize.

Grass has spent years actually producing to society and tolerance by being a literary figure par excellence. Ratzinger, on the other hand, is still trying to drag women back to the Middle Ages by their hair. Which kind of beggars the question–why did nobody ask for Ratzie to give the papacy back?