Pope "purifying"?

Question

When pope ratzinger referred to the catholics "purifying" the natives of the americas, was he referring to the genocidal practices, enslavement, or generations of sexual abuse? Its hard to tell, as ratzi the former nazi was using the term that he used in his childhood to defend the holocaust.

tueton - ratzi's membership in the nazi party is a fact, not a conjecture. he was an avid member, and was imprisoned at the end of ww2 as a nazi. to try to argue that is like arguing the world is flat.

not every member of the nazi party was a nazi? what a sick desperate game you are playing. and pretending that the catholics did not sexually absue native children for decades 9something pope nazi defended for many years) is just insulting. i guess you are not merely a catholic, but also part of his nazi elite scum.

Answer 1

I think he was reffering to the conversion (some times forces) of them. He creeps me out

Answer 2

No.

The complete line is:

It also meant that they received, in the waters of Baptism, the divine life that made them children of God by adoption; moreover, they received the Holy Spirit who came to make their cultures fruitful, purifying them and developing the numerous seeds that the incarnate Word had planted in them, thereby guiding them along the paths of the Gospel.

Here is the complete text of the speech: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2007/may/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20070513_conference-aparecida_en.html

The Catholic Church believes this about all Christians not just those of the New World.

Your question would have more impact if you stated proofs of your accusations.

+ Genocide +

The mission of the Church is to proclaim and establish the Kingdom of God begun by Jesus Christ among all peoples.

Genocide, the killing an entire race of people, is obviously against everything the Church stands for and would do nothing to fulfill this mission.

+ Slavery +

The Bible does not condemn slavery. Colossians 3:22 even states, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything."

The Catholic Church was one of the first groups to condemn slavery.

The condemnation of slavery is one of those nonbiblical doctrines that Catholics have developed through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over the centuries.

In 1462, thirty years before Columbus discovered the New World, Pius II declared slavery to be "a great crime" (magnum scelus).

In 1537, Paul III forbade the enslavement of the Indians

Urban VIII forbade it in 1639

Benedict XIV forbade it in 1741

Pius VII demanded of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the suppression of the slave trade

Gregory XVI condemned it in 1839

In the Bull of Canonization of the Jesuit Peter Claver, one of the most illustrious adversaries of slavery, Pius IX branded the "supreme villainy" (summum nefas) of the slave traders.

Leo XIII, in 1888, addressed a letter to the Brazilian bishops, exhorting them to banish from their country the remnants of slavery -- a letter to which the bishops responded with their most energetic efforts, and some generous slave-owners by freeing their slaves in a body, as in the first ages of the Church.

+ Sexual Abuse +

I haven't the slightest idea of what you are trying to claim on this one.

+ Pope Benedict +

As a teenager and young man, Pope Benedict XVI was drafted into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi German Army just like every other non-Jewish German male. He was not given a choice.

The Pope is not and never has been a Nazi. He unfortunately was born and grew up in a country ruled by the Nazi party.

Every draftee into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi German Army was not a Nazi.

Thank God that you and I live in a very different world that the Pope did in 1930s and 1940s Germany. Or do we?

If you have proof that the Pope was a Nazi, please post it so that all can see.

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 3

The fact that you believe Pope Benedict XVI to have been an active member of the Nazi party already allows me to deem you a lost cause.

Answer 4

I have no idea but he obviusly misunderstands what he is saying no one can purify a person.