22 years since Pope's apology
March 23, 2022 at 5:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2022 at 6:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
So in March of 2000, John Paul II tried to apologize for the Catholic Church’s numerable crimes over its two thousand years of existence.
Some of the crimes that Pope tried to apologize for (either directly or indirectly): slavery of African people (Pope Nicholas V did issue a bull in the 15th century in which he allowed Europeans to enslave and kidnap the pagan people of Africa as long as they baptize them first); inactivity and silence of Church during the Holocaust of Jews; Crusades; inquisition; sins committed against Jews, heretics, women, Gypsies and native peoples; degradation of women (who are still degraded for, among other things, they are not allowed into clergy or any decision in the Church); he apologized for the trial of Galileo; he tried to apologize for Rwanda massacre; he tried to apologize for persecution and killing reformers like Jan Hus.
Although even then some were not happy with his apology. Like he didn’t apologize to homosexuals; some rabbis were deeply frustrated by the Pope's failure to mention the Holocaust directly.
So, anyway, have you accepted Papal apologies for the Church’s crimes in these 20 plus years after he made the apology?
Some of the crimes that Pope tried to apologize for (either directly or indirectly): slavery of African people (Pope Nicholas V did issue a bull in the 15th century in which he allowed Europeans to enslave and kidnap the pagan people of Africa as long as they baptize them first); inactivity and silence of Church during the Holocaust of Jews; Crusades; inquisition; sins committed against Jews, heretics, women, Gypsies and native peoples; degradation of women (who are still degraded for, among other things, they are not allowed into clergy or any decision in the Church); he apologized for the trial of Galileo; he tried to apologize for Rwanda massacre; he tried to apologize for persecution and killing reformers like Jan Hus.
Although even then some were not happy with his apology. Like he didn’t apologize to homosexuals; some rabbis were deeply frustrated by the Pope's failure to mention the Holocaust directly.
So, anyway, have you accepted Papal apologies for the Church’s crimes in these 20 plus years after he made the apology?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
