Posted on 06/22/2015 7:32:34 AM PDT by aimhigh
Pope Francis asked forgiveness on Monday for the Roman Catholic Church's "non-Christian and inhumane" treatment in the past of the Waldensians, a tiny Protestant movement the Vatican tried to exterminate in the 15th century.
The Waldensians, who now live mostly in Italy and Latin America, were founded by Peter Waldo in France in the late 12th century. He gave up his wealth and preached poverty but as the movement grew it came into increasing theological conflict with the papacy. The movement, an early precursor of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, was branded as heretical and in 1487 Pope Innocent VIII ordered its extermination.
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Better late than never? How about talking about the current mistreatment of Christians worldwide today?
The Church has made a number of mistakes over the centuries.
The two biggest recent ones: Recruiting depraved priests and covering up their deeds.
The election of the current Pontiff whose far left politics is barely distinguishable from Castro, Che, and BHO.
We're not into apologies anyway ... past or present ...
God calls us all to repentence, not feeling bad for feeling bad's sakes.
And if there is a TRUE, modern day ecclesiastical quandary ... it is .... should a Christian desire to kill evil doers (ISIS f'rinstance) or just pray in our seats of blessed assurance ?
And I don't mean purchasing a Writ of Absolution from Algore.
Next on the docket...Copernicus and Galileo
Asks for forgivenes, but shoves same group global warming down their throats. In other words, sorry, but submit to eucumenism.
Don’t forget the Piedmont area of NC, Valdese NC
What about Friday the 13th, 1307 ?
I find this post most ironical when you consider how the vast majority of post run over on the Religion Threads.
All those butchered by the Catholic church were unavailable for comment.
0 went around the world bowing down and asking for pardon for the USA’s past sins. 0 is ashamed of the USA and the pope is ashamed of the church.
600 hundred years ago?
I’d say everybody is over it already.
Heck, this was on my top five of concern list... (/s)
Does Papa get a free pass on mistreatment of the Huguenots?
Hey, he’s got a big list to work through, give him time.
He;s old (thanks be to God) but even he is not THAT old.
That’s a good start. Now what was it again that motivated the guy with the funny hat to comment on global warming?
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