“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Pandering to racial animus is not going to help matters...
Talk is cheap. Where my reparations at?
Still waiting for black lives matter to apologize for the destruction in Ferguson.
It’s amazing that the people of that city who never owned slaves themselves, have to apologize to a bunch of people who were never slaves. Absolutely ridiculous.
“Today the Society of Jesus, who helped to establish Georgetown University ...
Jesus helped establish Georgetown University?
Old school.
“WE”? How old is that guy?
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I feel ‘better’ how ‘but you? Sheesh! It was 1838! A little thing happened 23 years later. The US Civil War, perhaps Georgetown teaches about that?
Are they going to let 200 more years pass before they apologize to US for their acts of war against the citizens of the Unites States, acts not limited to establishing safe houses and smuggling organizations designed to prey on the tax payers and further put the citizens lives, health and wealth in jeopardy by introducing criminals and drunken miscreants into our society?
I spit on the evil Jesuits who mock our Saviour with their phony and pretentious lies.
School officials are truly mentally ill.
Tomorrow they will apologize for all the indentured servants who helped build early America.
272 slaves if nothing.
In the mid-1600s Oliver Cromwell sold 2/3 of the entire population of Ireland into slavery in the American Colonies and Carribean Islands to enrich the English Treasury.
Why? Because nobody will stop them.
Does anyone know if the 272 slaves accepted the apology?
What a vacant apology. Maybe if they were involved, it would mean something. Fools.
A retrospective judgement of past actions using the template of modern values and beliefs rather than the mores of the times is pseudohistory and done for the gratification and psychological needs of the living. If today’s Jesuits are really concerned about legacy, they ought to reflect on how their personal sexual behavior and politically correct posturing will one day be judged.
“We pray with you because we have sinned.”
According to the Bible (Num. 14:18), the children of those who sinned are punished by God unto the third and fourth generation (meaning, I believe, that the children are made to suffer the long-term consequences of sin). We, in America, know the awfulness of this warning, for we have had to suffer a Civil War and a century of sectionalism and Jim Crow discrimination for failing to embrace the principles of our Founding.
But, according to the Catholic Church, white people are guilty of sin because other white people sinned in the past. Well, maybe the Jesuit, as Jesuits are prone to do, isn’t saying, but is only implying that white people are guilty of the sin of slavery today because white people in the past were guilty of slavery.
As to implying that white people are sinful, hell no.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. White people and every other color people, today and all through history.
As for slavery, Africans in Africa committed that sin. Asians in Asia. And, Americans in America.
As for ending slavery, the Europeans were the first to end slavery (in Europe, although not in overseas colonies). The Christian nations took the initiative in ending slavery during the 19th Century. And promoted the international convention at the end of the 19th century ending slavery, joined in by the leading Muslim countries and the independent nations of Africa, and eventually also by the Asian counties. The ending of slavery in the world is a great achievement of which all mankind can rightfully feel good about. We, who have accomplished so much in this regard, can look forward to securing economic opportunity and human rights for everybody.
Finally, as to those who extoll their own virtuousness by falsely accusing others of sin, this is the sin of pride.
No one deserves or needs anything wrt whatever was happening with their ancestors in 1838. Today’s descendants have no connection to slavery on either side of the issue.
But if Georgetown wants to really prove its SJW bona fides, they should just give over the whole university to the leftards right now.
So...What will they do for kitchen help?