[detective]

Why is Pope Francis accepting at face value the dishonest, anti-Catholic accusations that the Catholic Church was responsible for the killing in Rwanda.

If Pope Francis wants to apologize, he should apologize for his role in causing the suffering in Venezuela, his support for Castro in Cuba and his support for jihadist terrorists.

[PGR88]

I had never even heard the accusation, until now, that the Catholic Church somehow had a role in the Rwandan Genocide.

What’s with this Pope????

[sickoflibs]

RE:”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.”

priests and nuns???

[yarddog]

Being a Southern Baptist, I am no fan of the Catholic Church but I doubt they share any blame for Rwanda.

[I want the USA back]

Just a minute. He’s pope. He should know that God is the one who forgives those who are repentant. He cannot be repentant because he didn’t do anything.

[Patriotic1]

"Many of the victims died at the hands of priests, clergymen and nuns, according to some accounts by survivors, and the Rwandan government says many died in the churches where they had sought refuge."

I'm not sure when the Catholic Church became a frequent apologizer for things not done in the name of the Church, but by its sinful representatives (priests and nuns), but I wonder if it really is a good thing to do?

If it makes some of the survivors/their families feel better and more at peace, then fine. But I just have to wonder whether it does...

[for-q-clinton]

First I heard of this. I’m not a fan of the catholic church. They hid pedophiles for years and helped them continue their crimes against children. But this issue I’ve never heard of—doesn’t mean it’s true though.

But if the Catholic Church was part of genocide, what have they done to punish those involved?

[Seruzawa]

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

[Seruzawa]

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

[Socon-Econ]

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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

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

[bar sin·is·ter]

Was Brian Williams there?

[al_c]

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.

[piasa]

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.

[onedoug]

Eff this pope forever.

[cherry]

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

[Organic Panic]

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

[AlaskaErik]

Yet he remains vehemently anti-Semitic and would betray the Jews to the moslem hordes.

[Crucial]

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

[\/\/ayne]

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