Pope Apologizes for Church’s Treatment of John Hus
Pope John Paul II offered an apology for the Catholic Church’s treatment of the 15th-century Czech priest and theologian John Hus, who was burned at the stake as a heretic. “Today, on the eve of the great jubilee, I feel the need to express deep regret for the cruel death inflicted on John Hus and for the consequent wound of conflict and division which was thus imposed on the minds and hearts of the Bohemian people,” he said.
The pope’s words came in a speech on Dec. 17 to participants of an international John Hus conference, sponsored by the Vatican’s jubilee committee and the Czech bishops’ conference. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415 after being condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance. Hus, an advocate of moral reform in the church, had doubts about the primacy of the pope that eventually led to his excommunication and death.
Pope Apologizes For "Murder" of Jan Hus
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The quote from the current Catechism is worthless
The quote expresses regret in the cooperation with the torturers adn condemns torture. This is why the Inquisition in any its modern form will not cooperate with any government as it abuses human dignity, and will not, of course, itself abuse human dignity.
Yes, and the Catechism cannot retroactively re-write history.
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The Catholic Church is no longer a secular power
To the extent that over 1 billion Catholics in the secular world listen to the Church, she is.
Rediculous. To speak as if any significant number of Catholics "listen" to the Catholic Church in their daily life is pure fantasy.
And anyone who suggests that they know otherwise is a fool. (Spell check is your friend)
Exactly.
Can you say "Kennedy"?"Kerry"?"Biden"?"Pelosi"?
Not to mention the Catholics I've worked with who voted pro-abortion Democrat because to them spending more money on socialist hand out programs like welfare was more important to them than their position on abortion.
To speak as if any significant number of Catholics "listen" to the Catholic Church in their daily life is pure fantasy.
That many Catohlic don't obey the Church is true, this is why I said "to the extent that...". But some do listen, enough apparently to swing elections in the US for a few recent occasions, as one example. The constant attention, usually negative, that the left and the media give the Church is another example. Observe that the Protestants views and opinions are rarely an object of any attention, unless it is some dim-witted pastor in some backwater doing something especially stupid.