Susan Sarandon Calls the Pope a "Nazi"
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Holy moly.
Susan Sarandon is apparently not a fan of Pope Benedict XVI.
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During an onstage Saturday interview (for the Hamptons Film Festival) with fellow actor Bob Balaban at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, the 63-year-old actress and outspoken activist slammed the current head of the Catholic Church, calling him a "nazi."
Newsday reports that the insult came during a discussion of Dead Man Walking, the 1995 film in which she starred as real-life Sister Helen Prejean. Sarandon told Balaban she sent a copy of Prejean's original book (which advocates against the death penalty) to the Pope.
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"The last one," Sarandon clarified, "not this Nazi one we have now."
German-born Pope Benedict XVI, 84, succeeded Pope John Paul II in 2005, days after the latter's death and a 26-year reign at the Vatican.
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After Recount actor Balaban, 66, gently chided Sarandon's jab, she apparenty repeated her remark, according to Newsday.
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21Hey Al A Ramirez, I was referring to someone name Ki Ke. I am the LEAST anti-Semitic person you will ever meet. Maybe you should engage your brain before ASSUMING things!
Kimberly Paric, You ignorant anti semitic cunt, try engaging brain before that nasty pie hole you have.
Kimberly Paric you ignorant anti semitic cunt...... try engaging brain before you engage your pie hole!
Whatever Susan. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Just remember, "opinions are like butt holes. Everyone has one'." Kike, I'd love to see you back up those statements.
@Jes Gibson - Susan Sarandon is Catholic. She even graduated the Catholic University of America. You are a disgusting thing.( But I see what the Catholic church taught you.) Please go back into the hole you crawled out of.. loser.
Wow, who does she think she is any way? Kike, obviously you saying all of this stuff the Pope SHOULD be doing, proves that you have very little understanding of what the Catholic church teaches.
Go Susan, I support you!! I´m latin american and this Nazi pope hates latin americans!! he hates gay people, he HATES many countries. Is that a pope? I do not think so, a pope MUST pray for love and this one prays for the death of gays, latin americans, muslims and even black people, he is the worst pope EVER!!
Since he was a member of Hitler Jugend doesn't that mean he technically is one? I am Catholic, but God knows I have zero respect towards anyone even remotely associated with Hitler whether they wanted to do it or not. During this time a lot of people were forced to do things, and I am supposed to feel bad for the ones who ran this regime? Not gonna happen.
I am not a Catholic, BUT,, HOW DARE SHE!?! Who in the world does she think she is?! She is an ACTRESS,, a person who pretends to be someone else, because she obviously finds herself far too boring to be herself 24/7! She believed in Partial Birth Abortion -- where one jabs a sharp implement into a baby's skull to kill the infant (all of the infiant is out of the mother's body EXCEPT for the head -- so that it "officially" is unborn" ) If ANYONE is a fascist Nazi -- it is MS. SARANDON.
Calling the pope a Nazi is insulting to the Nazis.
if anyone is like a nazi, it's Susan Sarandon, she supports partial birth abortion, that is the practice of partially delivering a baby, piercing the back of it's skull and sucking the brains out, all for convenience, don't want that baby, kill it, sounds like Adolph Hitler to me.
Susan Sarandon is stupid. She should get an education instead of always opening her mouth on topics she clearly doesn't understand or know about. Pope Benedict, who is Germnan, was just a teenager when the Nazis were in power. At that time all teenage boys in Germany were forced to be in the Nazi Youth party no matter what they belived. In fact they weren't even allowed to voice their opinion.
no respect at all. Regardless of her opinion, he is still a man of the cloth and we should respect him. WOW....I use to like her work , not anymore.
well, pretty much every kid was in the Hitler Jugend. Big deal. He's always distanced himself from that and what does child molesting have to do with nationalsocialism. Someone should attend their history classes again. Same with Catholic faith not having anything to do with Christianity. If you don't have anything valuable to say, don't say anything at all! It's pretty disgraceful to judge people and call them names without knowing anything about them. Someone seems to be full of stereotypes, thank god most people know better!
It is not only over the line, it is disgusting of her to compare John Paul II to Hitler. He has done nothing to encourage this kind of hatred.
he is a nazi. he protects child mostering priests. he'll never get my respect.
Well. It's a fact that he was in the Hitler Jugend as a young man. I heard he had repented of that..lol. The Catholic Church is a scam, it has nothing to do with real Christianity. Everybody knows this in Europe! Get informed! OR, ignorance is bliss?!
The pope didn't do anything to her ! what is her problem? maybe she didn't get Attention or something.
I think she's rude and should control her mouth
First thing she's ever said that I agree with. Pope John Paul ll was magnificent, this one is a disgrace.