Papal apology meets mixed response
As Romeo Saganash tweeted Friday about the Pope’s apology to a group of Canadian Indigenous people, “That was not an apology! He said sorry for the bad behaviour [of] “some Catholics”!” And Kahnawake’s Ratsénhaienhs Ross Montour says similarly in this piece, that “the Pope apologized for the actions of some priests and nuns and not the church itself.” Some are now awaiting a papal visit to see whether a more complete acknowledgement is made.
qatzelok 11:30 on 2022-04-02 Permalink
So no admission whatsoever from the Pope hinting that **the sublimation of natural sexuality** which is a major part of Abrahamic religions, may cause this type of behavior?
Kate 18:18 on 2022-04-02 Permalink
qatzelok, did you think the Pope was ever going to delve into psychological issues in this situation, even if the Catholic church bought into modern psychology, which it never has?
The Pope has clearly been advised, if he hadn’t already internalized the notion, that he must not admit to organizational guilt. In a sense, he’s basically doing a François Legault. There is no systemic racism in Quebec. There are no systemic coverups of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. If the Pope did admit the systemic flaws in his church, the Catholic church would have to pay up, big time – and, even more painfully, change. And it is not going to change.
As Taras Grescoe tweeted Friday, “Sell a Rafael, a Titian, a Michelangelo, and use the revenues to fund a safe and consistent supply of potable water to every living Indigenous person in the land known to some as Canada, Your Holiness. It would be a start.”