Pope Benedict XVI

• Birth date: 1927
  

Benedict was born during the Nazi era in Germany. He ruled the Church with an iron grip and made it a point to persecute a minority group.

Many Catholics will recall the legacy of his papacy with mixed feelings. Queer people will remember how he persecuted LGBTQ+ people.

In two letters to New Ways Ministry, a group persecuted for decades for its outreach to LGBTQ Catholics, the pontiff praised its “neighborly approach.”

It took the Church 350 years to admit they got that whole Galileo thing wrong. How long will it take for them to apologize for waging war on transgender people?

Pope Francis gave money to 20 Latin American sex workers in need of shelter and medical care. Meanwhile, former-Pope Benedict connected gay marriage to the anti-Christ.

As far back as 543 C.E., we were taking the blame. So why does this lunacy continue?

Rather than blaming LGBT people, we must embrace science to save humanity from itself.

One of them turned the Vatican into a male brothel.

No, an antipsychotic drug that can “cure” transgender people isn’t being covered up by a cabal of liberal scientists.

The Pope’s shift in tone and broad statements about mercy have left a trail of comments that amount to a Rorschach test open to interpretation.