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Pope begs forgiveness for church role in Rwanda genocide
MSN News ^ | March 20, 2017 | NICOLE WINFIELD

Posted on 03/20/2017 12:14:27 PM PDT by detective

Pope Francis on Monday begged forgiveness for the "sins and failings of the church and its members" during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, and told Rwanda's president that he hoped his apology would help the country heal.

In an extraordinary statement after Francis' meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the Vatican acknowledged that the church itself bore blame, as well as some Catholic priests and nuns who "succumbed to hatred and violence, betraying their own evangelical mission" by participating in the genocide.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: genocide; popefrancis; rwanda
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To: sickoflibs

IIRC, there was a priest who pointed out to attackers that his church was full of the folks that needed killing, or something, and they murdered everyone in his church, over a hundred people, hacked to death.


21 posted on 03/20/2017 12:49:50 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: IrishBrigade

I thought I was older when he was in power, but I guess not.


22 posted on 03/20/2017 12:50:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: detective

Talk is cheap Francis. How about cutting loose some of that trillion dollars you are sitting on?


23 posted on 03/20/2017 12:50:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: detective

Talk is cheap Francis. How about cutting loose some of that trillion dollars you are sitting on?


24 posted on 03/20/2017 12:50:59 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: detective

Good point. He is showing a false sense of humility over the transgressions of a small number of low-level priests and nuns. He should be weeping over all the protestants who were burned at the stake and the Jews who were killed in Catholic instigated pogroms.


25 posted on 03/20/2017 12:51:06 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: detective

Jorge “Francis” Bergoglio? A sniveling, Marxist, punk.


26 posted on 03/20/2017 12:59:22 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: detective

That the pope apologized for. And last I checked he was the church.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 1:00:40 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: PGR88

I had never even heard the accusation, until now

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Had he only kept his mouth shut, that would be at least two of us that never knew about it.


28 posted on 03/20/2017 1:04:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: detective

Was Brian Williams there?


29 posted on 03/20/2017 1:06:43 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: detective
This is nothing new. The RCC in Rwanda apologized for this back in 2014 as well. And yes ... some members of the Church had a hand in the massacres. More than 2,000 people had sought shelter in Saint Famille, Rwanda’s largest Catholic church. Later, many were handed over to the killers by one of the parish priests, who witnesses said colluded with the Hutu militias.

Shameful that this happened, but I see no need for Pope Francis to revisit this seeing that the Church in Rwanda had already apologized for what some of its members did.

30 posted on 03/20/2017 1:10:07 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Seruzawa
How about cutting loose some of that trillion dollars you are sitting on?

The majority of the Church's so-called "wealth" is tied up in real estate and in art work. These assets are "public wealth." They are open for all to visit and see, much like a public museum. The Vatican couldn't even afford to have the Sistine Chapel artwork refurbished. A Japanese company footed the bill for that.

31 posted on 03/20/2017 1:14:27 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: al_c

Well if one actually cared as much about refugees as he claims it shouldn’t be too hard to liquidate a few billion.


32 posted on 03/20/2017 1:20:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: detective

Most likely he is doing it for the same reason Obama went on his apology tour apologizing for everything the Marxists accused the US of doing whether we did it or not. Once the Marxists have an official apology from your “leader” to point at, then you’re guilty, no matter what the facts are- and they have obtained the bludgeon they wanted all along to propagandize the youth, without actually having to win an argument with reason.


33 posted on 03/20/2017 1:24:30 PM PDT by piasa
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To: detective

Eff this pope forever.


34 posted on 03/20/2017 1:26:28 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: detective
this is the Catholic way...or the white way...just take on all guilt no matter what...

like it was whitey hacking to death those thousands and thousands of a fricans

35 posted on 03/20/2017 1:27:04 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Seruzawa
Well if one actually cared as much about refugees as he claims it shouldn’t be too hard to liquidate a few billion.

A few billion what? Pieces of artwork? Square feet of building space?

36 posted on 03/20/2017 1:32:08 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: detective

It’s Africa being Africa. The Catholic Church had no role.


37 posted on 03/20/2017 1:50:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: detective
Yet he remains vehemently anti-Semitic and would betray the Jews to the moslem hordes.
38 posted on 03/20/2017 1:54:06 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: detective

Francis is acting just like Obama. He hates the thing he heads.


39 posted on 03/20/2017 1:55:13 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: detective

It was the UN that looked the other way and let it happen.


40 posted on 03/20/2017 2:20:49 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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