02-26-2013, 12:45 AM
"The burning of the knight of Hohenberg with his servant before the walls of Zürich, for sodomy, 1482."
Well, Ratzinger was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the organization which until 1965 had been called the Holy Office of the Inquisition.
Maybe he quit because he realized you can't burn gay priests at the stake like you used to.