Sins of the Catholic Church, pope apologized

Pope John Paul II made apologies. During his long reign as Pope, he apologized to Galileo, women, and almost everyone who had suffered at the hands of the Catholic Church through the years. Even before he became Pope, he was a prominent editor and supporter of initiatives like the Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops from 1965. As Pope, he officially made public apologies for over 100 of these wrongdoings, including:

• The legal process on the Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei, himself a devout Catholic, around 1633 (31 October 1992).

• Catholics' involvement with the African slave trade (9 August 1993).

• The Church Hierarchy's role in burnings at the stake and the religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation (May 1995, in the Czech Republic).

• The injustices committed against women, the violation of women's rights and for the historical denigration of women (10 July 1995, in a letter to "every woman").

• The inactivity and silence of many Catholics during the Holocaust (16 March 1998)

• For the execution of Jan Hus in 1415 (18 December 1999 in Prague). When John Paul II visited Prague in 1990s, he requested experts in this matter "to define with greater clarity the position held by Jan Hus among the Church's reformers, and acknowledged that "independently of the theological convictions he defended, Hus cannot be denied integrity in his personal life and commitment to the nation's moral education." It was another step in building a bridge between Catholics and Protestants.

• For the sins of Catholics throughout the ages for violating "the rights of ethnic groups and peoples, and [for showing] contempt for their cultures and religious traditions". (12 March 2000, during a public Mass of Pardons).

• For the sins of the Crusader attack on Constantinople in 1204. (4 May 2001, to the Patriarch of Constantinople).

Source: wikipedia
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2,000 years of violence and persecution

The Crusades
Pope Urban II, anxious to assert Rome's authority in the east, sent a military expedition in 1095 to reconquer the holy land. The crusaders ravaged the countries they passed through and massacred the Muslim, Jewish and even Christian population of Jerusalem after capturing it in 1099. After 200 years of conflict Muslim armies drove them out for good, but the crusaders' symbol of the red cross remains provocative.
The Inquisition
The attempt to combat suspected apostates, Jews and Muslims at the time of the Reformation spawned tribunals in Europe and the new world that tortured and executed thousands. Ecclesiastical queasiness about flowing blood led to the use of racks, thumbscrews and red-hot metal instead of blades; 2,000 people were burned at the stake during the tenure of Spain's first grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada.
The Holocaust
Pope Pius XII never publicly condemned the Nazis' persecution of Jews, even when they were being rounded up and deported from Rome. His silence is partly blamed for the failure of Germany's Catholics to resist Hitler. Anti-Jewish Catholic doctrines such as the claim that the Jews murdered Christ were said to have ideologically underpinned nazism. Vatican officials allegedly helped Nazis escape Europe after the war.
Source: Worldnews
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A discussion lead by Ray Suarez on church's sins...
I will just quote some because its kinda long post, here it is:

RABBI MARVIN HIER, Simon Wiesenthal Center: I think it was an extraordinary event, something that none of his predecessors have ever done before -- in the heart of St. Peter's Basilica to stand up and say that we take responsibility for the sins committed by Christians. It's true that it refers mainly to events that occurred during the Crusades, for example, during the Inquisition, when people were forced against their will to adopt another religion. And I think it would have been even of greater historic validity if it would have contained a specific contemporary example like the Holocaust so that people will not think, well, the Pope is asking us to remember and to forgive the sins committed a thousand years ago, 1,500 years ago, but he's not talking about today.

EV. THOMAS REESE: Well, there was a lot of reluctance within the Vatican to talk about past sins at all. But this pope has a real sense of history, a sense... I mean, he's the one who apologized for how the Church treated Galileo. He's done it about how the Church treated the Jews. He's mentioned the Muslims, I mean, he's mentioned most recently in this confession: women. So this is a Pope who's courageous in facing the sinfulness of Christians and calling on them to do better. He knows what he wants to do, and he says it.

RABBI MARVIN HIER: Well, I don't think so. First of all, let me say that when the pope talks about individuals that have committed these great injustices in the last 2,000 years, well, many of the individuals who committed those injustices were not just ordinary people, they were sometimes bishops, cardinals, even popes. There was the incident in Jewish history where Jews were forced to wear the yellow badge. Now, this was not forced upon them by the local people. This came from the top. So when the pope asked for forgiveness for those misdeeds, in a way he's signaling out for criticism all those people who instituted such policies.

REV. THOMAS REESE: Well, I think that the Pope has talked about the Holocaust in the past, the failure of so many Christians to reach out to help the Jews and to protect them from the Nazis. He's acknowledged that, he's talked about it. I think that this... we will have a continuing ongoing dialogue between Catholics and Jews about the Holocaust. The pope has appointed an international commission of Catholic and Jewish historians to look at documents that have been published by the Vatican on the Holocaust. They've already asked for more documents from the Vatican. I think this is going to be ongoing, I think this is good, I think it should be done. The Pope has put on a back burner the whole question about the canonization of Pius XII. I think these are all good moves. Clearly this is a pope who wants to have reconciliation with the Jewish community and is asking for forgiveness of all the sins, all the sins. And there are lots that the Christian community has committed against the Jews.

Source: pbs.org



NO DOUBT, the Catholic church is inexcusable and cannot escape on its HISTORY about killing people, forced conversion of people and many others.

And lets connect it with the present issue, THE RH BILL, do you think the CATHOLIC CHURCH REALLY CARE ON HUMAN'S LIFE?

IT IS THEREFORE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOULD BE PUNISHED FOR SUCH THINGS!

They say they care for human life, but what's all of these? Is the Catholic Church REALLY

HOLY

and

APOSTOLIC
CHURCH?