(March 23, 2022 at 5:58 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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?
I don't fall into any of the above categories. Let him apologize for the centuries of clergy abuse of children and I'll let you know.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
