Pope a member of Hitler Youth

I'm withholding most of my commentary and judgment, but I do find this suspicious: After going back and forth, it's been confirmed that the Pope was once a member of the Hitler Youth.

He said it was compulsory. But a man who just got deported to Germany was also involved in some sort of compulsory Nazi service, as far as I remember.

I would not draw attention to this, except for the Pope's recent insensitivity to Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities, when the Pope sided with a Catholic leader who had been excommunicated for saying the Holocaust never happened.

Whether it's the Catholic church or a Protestant denomination, does no one abide by the New Testament rule anymore that says leaders should be chosen for their service and blamelessness rather than...whatever? It's alarming the number of church leaders who have conflicts of interest like this.

Whether or not the Pope was an active member of the Hitler Youth or not, or whether he did anything wrong, there's something to be said for blamelessness. And please tell us these things, such as one-time participating in a group associated with brainwashing that led to the attempted extermination of an entire race, when whoever decides you're going to be Pope is deciding. (I'm aware of the process; that was a deliberate poke at the church.)