[BlueDragon]

It seems to me you did not read what little I'd provided from Timothy Longman.

The church can “claim credit” for what its member do if what they did was done as part of their work in the church with its encouragement and approval.

Local churches did play a role in setting up the catastrophe.

Liberation theology (liberation from our oppressors!) is part of a theological running subtext within Catholicism. It may be much subdued in North America (morphing into other sympathy forms) but elsewhere is a different story.

Last time around, RC Cardinals elected a South American Jesuit to be 'Pope" too.

[detective]

What Timothy Longman said was that when people tried to seek sanctuary in churches the mobs broke church windows and threw grenades in and fired on churches. The slaughter occurred when mobs stormed churches with machetes and killed the people seeking sanctuary in the churches.

That is essentially the same thing I said.

Longman blames the churches, not those who incited the mobs or who actually killed the people.

There had been a long running civil war in Rwanda between Tutsi’s and Hutu's.

People went on the radio every day during the killings ordering people go to targeted villages and to kill everyone including women and children. Mobs were orgnized and armed and taken to villages to kill innocent people. In fact, Rwandans have told me that the radio broadcasts admonished the mob members for being less than enthused and for not killing enough women and children.

The point is Pope Francis refuses to recognize the many contributions and accomplishments by faithful Catholics throughout the world. Francis is quick to falsely attack Catholics in general for things that Catholics are not responsible for.

I have met and gotten to know several Rwandans in the U.S. The are very devout Catholics and when they tell the story of the horrific killing none of them blame the Catholic Church.