Not sure if "commuist" is right word or not, but therest is rather valid.......
BTW, do you speak German? write in German?
True enough, Mr. Belloc. After my comment "froze" I thought: "I should have written 'Marxist' rather than 'Communist.'" But by then it was too late. Perhaps "German Marxist with very unwholesome KPD family connections" might be the most accurate description. "Communist" was a bit of an exaggeration, although not so much.
Through my younger years my life was plagued by the Stasi, an omnipresent and hyper-active institution back then throughout the German world that the American government always seemed to promote rather than prevent. In consequence, after a long story I won't repeat here, I speak and write French and Spanish rather than German. Basically I would have had to join the world-wide Stasi network of those decades in order to study German and then live long enough to do anything with it. For me that price was too high.
(Before Americans say "Oh, those Germans... Always up to their ears in bad things," I should say all of this was due to the AMERICAN support for the Stasi, not anything the Stasi could have done on its own.)
Anyway, the current occupant of the Chair of Peter does have "Stasi" written all over him and, please rest assured, I'm radically over-qualified to recognise the Germans connected with our late German Secret Police. That apostate German in the Vatican might as well have "S-T-A-S-I" flashing vividly over his head in florescent neon lights and, from every appearance, the neo-Stasi seems to be thriving like never before.
Nowadays the violent repression in Germany is much worse than it ever was during the Third Reich, at least for the non-Communists, that is. The usual American blather about "freedom and democracy" sounds a bit hollow in German Catholic ears.