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Related: About this forumPope Apologizes For Catholic Church's 'Offenses' Against Indigenous Peoples
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-francis-apologizes-for-catholic-churchs-offenses-against-indigenous-peoples_559f02aae4b096729155dd59"I humbly ask forgiveness...for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America."
Associated PressBy Nicole Winfield, Jacobo Garcia
Posted: 07/09/2015 | Edited: 07/09/2015 08:02 PM EDT
Pope Francis is framed by a feather headdress worn by one of the indigenous people and children wearing traditional costumes greeting him upon his arrival at the El Alto airport, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. | (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) Pope Francis apologized Thursday for the sins and "offenses" committed by the Catholic Church against indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.
History's first Latin American pope "humbly" begged forgiveness during an encounter in Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in the presence of Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president, Evo Morales.
Francis noted that Latin American church leaders in the past had acknowledged "grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God." St. John Paul II, for his part, apologized to the continent's indigenous for the "pain and suffering" caused during the 500 years of the church's presence on the continent during a 1992 visit to the Dominican Republic.
But Francis went farther.
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Cartoonist
(7,326 posts)Will have to apologize for today's offenses.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Teaching homosexuality is "intrinsically disordered".
Relegating women to second class status.
Opposing reproductive choice.
Opposing marriage equality.
Claiming gender theory is akin to Naziism.
It is so sad you don't see any of that. No wonder you think Pope Awesome is, well, awesome.
Cartoonist
(7,326 posts)Tithing, homophobia. Other religious BS.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)as the crimes against indigenous people that he is addressing.
This is a topic in which you have shown great interest. What do you think of his apology?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)trying to denying reproductive choice to the whole planet, covering up for unknown numbers of pedophiles, gee, yeah, none are as bad as genocide so I guess we just give that all a pass and shouldn't talk about it.
He hasn't addressed the "why"
cbayer
(146,218 posts)It looks to me like he is being pretty straightforward about it.
What other "why" do you see?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)He apologized for things that were done. He's ignoring the WHY. You know very well what that is. WHY is because they believed (as Frankie and the current RCC leadership do today) that THEY know what god wants, what we humans need to do to please him, and what we are ALLOWED to do to make it happen. And that is exactly why he can't address that - because without that bogus moral superiority, the modern day church will collapse.
So he apologizes for the actions of long-dead men. Doesn't cost him anything, improves his image. The PR Pope strikes again.