Posted on 08/01/2022 6:38:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
Asked by an Indigenous reporter why he did not use the word while in Canada, Pope Francis says it did not come to mind
The planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school system was "genocide," Pope Francis said.
Asked by an Indigenous reporter why he did not use the word genocide while in Canada, the pope said, "I didn't use the word because it did not come to mind, but what I described was genocide."
"And I condemned it," he said, during his inflight news conference on July 29 at the end of a trip that had begun July 24.
Another Canadian reporter asked Pope Francis about the "Doctrine of Discovery," a collection of papal teachings, beginning in the 14th century, that blessed the efforts of explorers to colonize and claim the lands of any people who were not Christian, placing both the land and the people under the sovereignty of European Christian rulers.
Pope Francis said it always has been a temptation for colonizers to think they were superior to the people whose land they were colonizing. In fact, he said, there even was "a theologian, who was a bit crazy," who questioned whether the Indigenous of the Americas had souls.
"This is the problem of every colonialism, even today," he said, pointing to modern forms of "ideological colonialism," which use requests for foreign assistance to force poorer countries to adopt policies that go against the values their people hold dear.
"This doctrine of colonialism truly is evil, it's unjust," the pope said.
Because of continuing knee pain, the pope did not stand in front of the journalists' section for the 40-minute news conference, but rather sat in portable chair in the aisle.
"This trip was a bit.......
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Well, ain’t that a swift kick in the head to the hundreds of thousands of First-Nations Catholics.
worse than the FJB...
Bad translation ?
Colonization if done right can be a good thing.
Teach them Christianity and sanitation.
Colonization done poorly will cost you an arm and a leg and you’ll end up leaving billions of military equipment behind and have nothing to show for it.
Or did Frank forget the Indians stole land and waged war on each other before the Europeans arrive?
A tour of the modern Indian reservations in Canada and America will disabuse the observer of these criticisms that the effort was not just misplaced but evil. There is perhaps no culture in America or Canada more degraded and wretched than our aborigines.
We teach children half truths...
I believe it was one of the Roosevelt's who said if we didn't intercede, they would have killed themselves off.
Genocide has now lost all meaning.
Much like “racist”
Why did Canada support this?
Who is ultimately responsible? TrueDope’s nominal Dad?
I’d like to learn the truth about Canadian “Resident Schools.”
We are flooded with the typical standard leftist slogans, repeated constantly, as we see with anything related to history the Left wants to destroy.
So I know there is another side to it.
The fact that it's repeated, is enough to tell you it's a damned lie.
“There is perhaps no culture in America or Canada more degraded and wretched than our aborigines.”
The native Americans living between Albuquerque and Santa Fe do not want pictures of their living conditions taken.
The hard-working Indinistas from Mexico and Central America should be an example to many of our Native Americans.
“Tuberculosis is now the leading cause of death from infectious diseases for children of all ages globally.”
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/tuberculosis/
“During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States, and one of the most feared diseases in the world.”
http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/alav/tuberculosis/
From Wikipedia:
....Columbus having journeyed in 1492. The first written records of an outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494 or 1495 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion (Italian War of 1494–98). Since it was claimed to have been spread by French troops, it was initially called the “French disease” by the people of Naples. The disease reached London in 1497 and was recorded at St Batholomew’s Hospital as infected 10 out of the 20 patients. In 1530, the pastoral name “syphilis” (the name of a character) was first used by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro as the title of his Latin poem in dactylic hexameter Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (Syphilis or The French Disease) describing the ravages of the disease in Italy. In Great Britain it was also called the “Great Pox”.
In the 16th through 19th centuries, syphilis was one of the largest public health burdens in prevalence, symptoms, and disability, although records of its true prevalence were generally not kept because of the fearsome and sordid status of sexually transmitted infections in those centuries. According to a 2020 study, more than 20% of individuals in the age range 15–34 years in late 18th century London were treated for syphilis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis
“Some of Concord’s most revered families fell victim to tuberculosis. Both Emerson and Thoreau came from what were recognized as ‘consumptive’ families- those with many cases.”
“Of the 53 pupils at the school at the time of the Brontës, seven died, and others were sent home severely ill who may also have died. This wasn’t the end of deaths during Wilson’s career as a headmaster, indeed they occurred continually throughout his decades in this role. By 1840, 15 years after the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth Brontë, Wilson had moved his school to Casterton in Westmorland. The Leeds Intelligencer of 25th January 1840 reports that 70 pupils at the school were now suffering from typhoid, and that three had recently died.”
https://www.annebronte.org/2018/05/06/in-memoriam-maria-bronte-and-elizabeth-bronte/
In the modern era:
“7 cases of TB were notified at a faith based female boarding school in a UK city over 5 years.”
“From 2008 to 2013, mass TB screening was done four times in this school. In total, 1524 students and staff were screened. Of these, 98 had latent and 13 had active TB.”
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(16)30732-9/fulltext
Yes, sadly it has. I have railed against the way that word has so casually been bandied about these past two decades.
Mr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, you might be wise to read Romans 1:28 “ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done”
Of course, having a depraved mind means you don’t have the capacity to understand what you are doing, nor the capacity to understand the text.
Here’s a hint, God’s abandoned you to your own thoughts.
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