Di: yan
To say the Church did not support slavery is to overlook inconvenient facts in an attempt to re-write history. You are dishonest or ignorant. St. Paul did not write against the institution of slavery....
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This requires a long response, but I will try to sum up things as much as I can. True, the Church at the beginning has accepted the slavery as an institution, which did not mean it was not against. It...
View ArticleDi: Laicus
I quote Wikipedia’s article on Bartolomé de las Casas : “In his early writings, he advocated the use of African slaves instead of Natives in the West-Indian colonies; consequently, criticisms have been...
View ArticleDi: fredx2
You are absolutely correct. The church has always ameliorated slavery. A cherry picking of church history by progressives has allowed them to claim otherwise, but a careful examination of history,...
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You point out that two individual churchmen took positions on slavery that were not in accord with Catholic teaching on the matter, that is all. Since the secular rulers often even appointed the local...
View ArticleDi: Joseph Klapatch
1198 Trinitarians founded by St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois, established hospitals for slaves at Algiers and Tunis in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 1218 The Order of Our Lady of...
View ArticleDi: Jack Gordon
“A cherry picking of church history by progressives has allowed them to claim otherwise….” You’re quite right. As Nicolás Gómez Dávila succinctly put it: “Falsifying the past is the method the Left...
View ArticleDi: The messenger
“The Church can have a change of mind. For example, we know that the Church at the beginning was in favor of slavery, and later she was not anymore,» said Victor Fernandez, rector of the Catholic...
View ArticleDi: Bill K
Getting back to the Synod, when is the Pope going to have his people post the final document of the SYNOD 2014, on the Vatican web site in all major languages including English ? As of this post, it is...
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