Sarandon Calls Benedict A Nazi.

Al Salamu 'Alaykum.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at a U.S. film festival in New York, provoking criticism from both Catholic and Jewish groups.

The movie star, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1995 anti-death penalty film "Dead man Walking" actress, said she had sent a copy of the book on which the movie is based to the pope.

"The last one. Not this Nazi one we have now," she was reported as saying by New York newspaper Newsday.

The remark was made on Saturday in an interview conducted by fellow actor Bob Balaban about Sarandon's career that was part of the Hamptons Film Festival.

Newsday said Balaban gently chided Sarandon for the remark but she repeated it.

Sarandon's Hollywood agent did not respond to calls for comment on Monday.

German born Pope Benedict, formerly Joseph Ratzinger, was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth in the early 1940s when membership was compulsory, the Vatican has said. He deserted the military during World War Two and has said that as devout Catholics, his parents rejected Nazi ideology.

Sarandon, 65, who was raised in New York as a Roman Catholic, is known for her support of causes ranging from hunger and AIDS to opposing the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The "Thelma and Louise" star was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999.

The New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called Sarandon's remark "obscene" and said in a Monday statement that her "ignorance is willful."
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which fights anti-Semitism, called on Sarandon to apologize to the Catholic Community.

"Ms. Sarandon may have her differences with the Catholic Church, but that is no excuse for throwing around Nazi analogies. Such words are hateful, vindictive and only serve to diminish the true history and meaning of the Holocaust," the ADL said in a statement.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

http://news.yahoo.com/susan-sarandon-calls-pope-benedict-nazi-report-203917195.html

Nazism & Christianity.



I take the Bible, and all evening long I read the simplest and greatest sermon that has ever been given to mankind: The Sermon on the Mount! 'Blessed are they who suffer persecution for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven'!
-- Joseph Goebbels

When today a clique accuses us of having anti-Christian opinions, I believe that the first Christian, Christ himself, would discover more of his teaching in our actions than in this theological hair-splitting.
-- Joseph Goebbels

I swear before God this holy oath, that I shall give absolute confidence to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people.
-- Heinrich Himmler, reminding his hearers about the oath taken by all SS men as well as by the military forces

An early member of the Nazi party and one of its principle leaders, [Hermann] Göring founded the Gestapo and served as the Reichsluftfahrtminister of the Luftwaffe.

With the Catholic Church the Führer ordered a concordat to be concluded by Herr Von Papen. Shortly before that agreement was concluded by Herr Von Papen I visited the Pope myself. I had numerous connections with the higher Catholic clergy because of my Catholic mother, and thus-- I am myself a Protestant-- I had a view of both camps.
-- Hermann Göring (Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945, Vol.9)

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.
-- Hermann Göring

No matter what human beings do I shall some day stand before the judgement seat of the Eternal. I shall answer to Him, and I know he will judge me innocent.
-- Rudolf Hess, in a statement to the Nuremberg Tribunal

Erich Koch ... functioned as President of the East Prussian Protestant Church Synod when the Third Reich began. He founded his own regional variation of the German Christians (Deutsche Christen) party.

We commit ourselves, and we demand this commitment not only from the elected representatives of the church, but above all from all Protestant men and women, to service in our communities! We want to serve: through tireless recruitment to our worship; through chivalrous intervention for the poor and needy, through defence of our faith;... through true Evangelical witness in public.
-- Erich Koch

The Protestant League stands very close to the NSDAP. It is consciously German and, through moral and religious power, wants to contribute to the building up of the German people.
-- Hans Schemm

It is henceforth the goal of the Education Ministry that every child in Bavarian schools shall be made familiar with the principles of the Christian and national state.... Religious instruction is nothing other than service to the soul of children. Faith in God and the personality of the teacher must be expressed in a realistic instruction filled with religious sincerity.
-- Hans Schemm

May God save Germany!
-- Joachim Ribbentrop, [fanatical Nazi and anti-Semite] his last words before his hanging

Now it goes to God!
-- Julius Streicher, as he mounted the gallows platform to his death

21 Sexual Predators - Beware.



Al Salamu 'Alaykum.
The 21 catholic priests who have been accused of sexually abusing children and have been suspended by the Catholic church have been named. These worthies and their haunts are as follows:

1. Philip Barr, Pastor Emeritus, St. Edmond's, Philadelphia
2. John Bowe, Saint Joseph's, Warrington, Pa.
3. George Cadwallader, Saint Vincent De Paul, Richboro, Pa.
4. Paul Castellani, Saint Philomena's, Lansdowne, Pa.
5. Michael Chapman, Ascension of Our Lord, Philadelphia
6. Msgr. John Close
7. Msgr. Francis Feret, Saint Adalbert's, Philadelphia
8. Mark Fernandes, Saint Agnes, Sellersville, Pa.
9. Msgr. Michael Flood, Saint Luke the Evangelist, Glenside, Pa.
10. Mark Gaspar, Our Lady of Charity, Brookhaven, Pa.
11. Joseph Glatts
12. Steven Harris
13. Daniel Hoy, Retired, Our Lady of the Assumption Rectory, Strafford, Pa.
14. Msgr. Joseph Logrip, Saint Stanislaus, Lansdale, Pa.
15. Andrew McCormick, Sacred Heart, Swedesburg, Pa.
16. Zachary Navit, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Doylestown, Pa.
17. Leonard Peterson, Saint Maria Goretti, Hatfield, Pa.
18. Robert Povish, Chaplain, State Correctional Institute, Graterford
    Saint Eleanor Rectory, Collegeville, Pa.
19. John Reardon, Saint John Of The Cross Rectory, Roslyn, Pa.
20. Thomas Rooney
21. Peter Talocci

You can read the entire article here: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Philly-Archdiocese-Suspends-21-Priests-117611144.html
Wa'laykum Salam.