A German archbishop has sparked controversy by calling some modern art 'degenerate' - a term used by the Nazi regime in its persecution of artists. Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, was speaking as the Church inaugurated its Kolumba art museum. ¶ Cardinal Meisner warned that when art became estranged from worship, culture became degenerate. The cardinal had not intended to pay tribute to 'old ideologies', a spokesman said."

Well, whilst we are assured that Papa Rat-Boy wasn't necessarily a Nazi, despite membership etc, we know all of his closest associates were. However, it's still quite shocking to realise that blatantly nazi-sympathies persist in the german catholic church.

Of course he now says he didn't mean it, but he said it nonetheless. He gets to express his views clearly and then pretend he didn't mean them. German society needs cleansing, evidently.

keep to the Fen Causeway