no matter what the pope or the Catholic Church does, it never seems to be enough ... not even here in this forum.
It takes a great amount of humility to apologize. It takes a charitable person to accept the apology. It's time to move on.
As I have pointedly declared upthread, my battle is with an errant church. if your Pope's apology extends in sufficiency to the point that the Roman Catholic Church, and it's adherents herein, admit that it was in fact, and in purpose, in error- THAT IT WAS WRONG- and that it's supposed inerrancy is in fact an error, then I will happily be done with it and move on.
Without the understanding that the RCC has made mistakes, and will make more in the future, it is only a matter of time until she repeats herself. I cannot abide that, nor allow her the reign to make her way toward that end. Because of that, I will *not* move on.
It is not the atrocities, sir (ma'am?), as I have said already. It is the lack of admission, and the foolhardy belief of inerrancy, which cannot be defended in the face of such. If not for those, the atrocities themselves are long in the past, and the apologies would not even be needed.
As to the charity, I am prone to it, but if the apology brings with it no admission of institutional guilt (error), then the charity need not extend to the institution either, or so it would seem.
Well put.
Not that facts seem to wear away the granite notions at all.