Rome will never apologize
Some of the apologies issued by the Roman Catholic Church
August 9, 1993: Pope John Paul II apologizes for Catholic involvement with the African slave trade.
November, 1994: The Catholic Church announces a commitment "to repent of past ecclesiastical sins as prelude to the celebration of Christianity's third millennium. "It is time," John Paul says, "to examine the past with courage, to assign responsibility where it is due in a review of the long history of humanity."
May, 1995: Pope John Paul II begs forgiveness in the Czech Republic for the Church's role in stake burnings and the religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation.
September 30, 1997: The French Roman Catholic Church apologizes for its role during the Holocaust and its silence during 1940 Vichy regime.
March 16, 1998: The Vatican apologizes for its silence and inaction during the Holocaust.
September 2, 1999: Pope John Paul II asks forgiveness for the past errors of the Catholic Church but did not specify any such errors.
September 8, 1999: New York Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor writes to his Jewish friends: "I ask this Yom Kippur that you understand my own abject sorrow for any member of the Catholic Church, high or low, including myself, who may have harmed you or your forbears in any way."
December 18, 1999: Pope John Paul II apologizes for the execution of religious reformer Jan Hus in 1415.
March 12, 2000: Pope John Paul II asks forgiveness for the sins of Catholics throughout the ages. During a public Mass of Pardon, the Pope says that "Christians...have violated the rights of ethnic groups and peoples, and shown contempt for their cultures and religious traditions..."
John Paul II yesterday attempted to purify the soul of the Roman Catholic church by making a sweeping apology for 2,000 years of violence, persecution and blunders.
the Pope sought pardon for seven categories of sin: general sins; sins in the service of truth; sins against Christian unity; against the Jews; against respect for love, peace and cultures; against the dignity of women and minorities; and against human rights.
Ethnic groups had endured "contempt for their cultures and religious traditions". Women were "all too often humiliated and marginalised". Trust in wealth and power had obscured the church's responsibility to the poor and oppressed.
Five Vatican cardinals and two bishops confessed sins on behalf of the church during the ceremony. Cardinal Edward Cassidy recalled the "sufferings of the people of Israel" asked divine pardon for the "sins committed by not a few [Catholics] against the people of the covenant". Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the congregation of the doctrine of the faith, confessed to the sins of the congregation's predecessor, the Inquisition.
He has apologised for the crusades, the massacre of French Protestants, the trial of Galileo and anti-semitism.
Yesterday's apology was by far the most sweeping and an unprecedented act for the leader of a major religion. One of the highlights of this year's jubilee, or holy year, it was the result of four years' research by a panel of 28 theologians and scholars.
Speaking after the ceremony to the crowd in St Peter's Square, the Pope stressed he was seeking forgiveness not from those who had been wronged, but from God. "Only he can do that."
September 5, 2000: Canada's Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, and United churches apologize to Eskimos and Indians for decades of abuse by white church officials.
May 28, 2001: The Roman Catholic Church of Poland apologizes for complicity in the killing of 1,6000 Jews in Jedwabne during World War II.
November 22, 2001: Pope John Paul II issues an apology for sex abuse by priests.
January 9, 2002: Boston Cardinal Bernard Law offers a public apology "with heartfelt sorrow" to people abused by priests as children.
April 24, 2002: Pope John Paul II apologizes to victims of sexual abuse by priests.
Quotes of William Branham
Now don’t be confused and start thinking that the Church of Rome has repented of her slaughter of the saints because she is attempting to unite with the Protestants by making her creeds to line up with Protestant Creeds. Not once has she ever apologized and said she was wrong for her mass murders. And she won’t either. And no matter how mellow and sweet she appears at this particular time, she will yet rise up to kill, for murder lies in her evil and unrepentant heart.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - 6 - The Thyatirean Church Age