I'm not Catholic and I think organised religion in general is ridiculous with the power and attention heaped upon the Pope being particularly silly, but I have to ask, didn't you do any stupid things when you were a child and what would you have done in a society where failure to conform could have meant your death and/or the deaths of your loved ones? The Nazis were (and are) a very deplorable thing but a child of that age isn't really in much of a position to go against that kind of terrorism. I've raised four kids and there's no telling what they'll do at that age, but he may have done it to save a loved one or just to be able to hang out with his buddies. Who knows?

Thanks for putting me in the position where I feel the need to defend the Pope, nimrod.