I am not Catholic.

As such, my opinions about the practices and dogma of the Catholic church are irrelevant. They can believe their beliefs and I will believe my beliefs.

But I do have to admit that JP II’s quest to elevate Hitler’s Pope to sainthood stuck in my craw. Not that I believe in sainthood. I ought not to care about another church’s veneration of anybody.

But still.

Hitler’s Pope?

I wonder whether Ratzinger’s elevation puts a temporary kibosh on Pious XII’s candidacy. I think that it might be politically expedient for a German and a former member of the Hitler Youth - however unwillingly - to canonize a Pope who symbolizes the moral paralysis of the mid-century church.