A friend sent me the above cartoon, showing chancellor Angela Merkel reproaching Pope Benedict ("That's a no no, Ratzinger! As far as Holocaust denial is concerned you'll have to set things straight at your end at last, got me?!!") while protesters outside her window are shouting: "Kill the Jews", "...

With all that concernment, consternation, dismay, sadness and shock about the pope and the Holocaust denier around, it was like a breeze of fresh air seeing ex-chancellor Gerhard "Gazprom" Schröder tackling the same problem with much more aplomb. John Rosenthal reports at NewMajority.com:Former Ger...

Via VFR (here and here) I was made aware of a review of Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" (I haven't seen it and it is not the subject of this entry) at NRO that includes a telling chracterization of the late pope John Paul II. In the light of the recent anti-Catholic hate-feast triggered off by th...

Somebody called Horst Mahler was sentenced to 4 years in prison for denial of the Holocaust lately and was detained immediately because of flight risk. Who is Horst Mahler? Horst Mahler (72) is the man who co-founded the left-wing-extremist terrorist "Red Army Faction" in 1970. He had been charged b...

Commenter Bruce Church (see previous entry) let me have information as a PDF-file, which can be downloaded here. He writes:I scanned a representative sample of the newspaper that the Octagenarian second-generation German-American Herman Otten of New Haven, Missouri, has sent out to thousands of Luth...

The Times used to be, long ago, a great newspaper when it was still the mouthpiece of the British establishment, or rather when the British establishment had a different face. Today, Times Online publishes the comment of one Sunny Hundal, headed Burning Satanic Verses lit the flame for better race r...

The following letter is by Mrs. Rosa Gillibrand to the German media-personality Michel Friedman, first posted at her husband's blog Catholic Church Conservation , which is among the few we have blogrolled. Roncesvalles is not a Catholic blog in the sense Catholic Church Conservation is. As the descr...

I am probably the last person fit to comment on theological matters, so I refrained so far from saying anything in view of the ongoing discussion about the ex-excommunication by Pope Benedict XVI of that Holocaust-denying renegate bishop. However, the discussion here in Germany has become so striden...

The inimitable Henryk M. Broder has reacted to the decision of the Central Council of Jews in Germany not to attend the official Berlin ceremony marking International Holocaust Memorial Day due to organizers' failure to greet the survivors present in previous years. The Secretary-General of the Cent...

The entire German media have their collective knickers in one big knot because the police chief of the Bavarian town of Passau became the victim of a stabbing on Saturday night. Local right-wing extremists are suspected because the police chief was known for taking a hard line in tackling them, as o...