His remarks caused little stir among the 160 bishops in the audience, but in the world outside the shrine he was accused of skirting the history of slavery, murder and exploitation in the conquest that made Catholicism the dominant church in Latin America.
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I wish this article included more of the Pope's address (although they never do). The statement, "In effect, the proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbian cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture," doesn't really jive with many of his other comments regarding the conquering of Latin America, so I'd be very interested in knowing the surrounding sentences.
The thing about this particular Pope, and I like this about him, is that he's usually very specific with his words, choosing what he says carefully, and meaning no more or less than what he says. The problem I see is that some folks are quick to try to extrapolate what "he really means", and draw more out of his words than he intends.
I'll have to try to run down a transcript of the full address.
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