Posted on 02/11/2016 6:17:13 AM PST by marshmallow
Pope Francis will officially authorise the use of indigenous languages in Catholic liturgies when he visits Mexico later this week. It is expected to be one of several such gestures he will make.
The Vatican said the Pope will present the language decree when he celebrates a special service for indigenous people in Chiapas state next Monday.
It is hoped this and other moves in Mexico will go some way to healing the hurt left by centuries of pain and conflict, some of which is certain to emerge during the visit.
The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacan, Mexico, has already accused the Catholic Church of being complicit in the killing of more than 24 million indigenous people.
Thirty indigenous communities of Michoacan have released a statement calling on the Pope to apologise for what happened to their people during the Spanish invasion of the Americas in the 16th century.
"For over 500 years, the original people of the Americas have been ransacked, robbed, murdered, exploited, discriminated and persecuted," the council said in a statement reported by Telesur. "Within this framework, the Catholic Church has historically been complicit and allies of those who invaded our land."
The Purepechas communities from Michoacan called on the Pope to publicly apologise for the Church's role in their sufferings.
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Look to Spain first.
LOL!
Good. Hopefully this will get a lot of press and undermine the Pope’s political road show to show “solidarity” with illegal border-jumpers.
Yes they were so much better off when they were noble Aztecs, practicing live sacrifice among other things. Maybe they want to go back to that?
Why does an Argentinian pope have to apologize for the Spanish conquistador Cortez?
They gave us fire ants so I think we are even.
To such ancient pagan practices is exactly where the world is headed. It will unleash hell on earth, for a time.
Instead, they've been "civilized" and brought to some measure of prosperity. How DARE they ...!
For most of the last 1000 years, the ONLY check on rapacious kings, gangsters, adventurers and corrupt businessmen was the Church.
The Catholic Spanish arriving in the Aztec areas was nearly the same as Allied soldiers liberating the Nazi death camps.
They should never apologize for stopping that ghastly mass murder society.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans the history of Indians in the Americas is basically a cycle of warlike Northern tribes moving South, killing, raping and enslaving the more agrarian Southern tribes and pushing them further south. The ancestors of South Americans were persecuted by the ancestors of the Mexicans. Therefore the pope being Argentinian, the Mexican Indians owe him an apology.
Ever notice that these “indigenous people” never seem to have any trouble with western Marxism, western science, or western materialist philosophy?
Anyone think he won’t give it to them?
Agreed.
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