Funny hat, evil ideology

The Pope's latest book is out, the BBC reports. Andrea and I were both pretty excited about that flu, but sadly he rallied and lived to publish his fifth book, Memory and Identity, in which he compares the legality of abortion to the Holocaust:

The Pope writes that both abortion and the mass murder of six million Jews came about as a result of people usurping the "law of God" beneath the guise of democracy.

"It was a legally elected parliament which allowed for the election of Hitler in Germany in the 1930s..." he writes.

"We have to question the legal regulations that have been decided in the parliaments of present day democracies. The most direct association which comes to mind is the abortion laws...

"Parliaments which create and promulgate such laws must be aware that they are transgressing their powers and remain in open conflict with the law of God and the law of nature."

Can't he just die already? Bush doesn't get to appoint his successor.