Your're right, I missed that. It seemed to me you were saying the apology was good enough, even if less than perfect.
Me, I think his apology ought to have been abject, but looking at his lack of introspection (based on his statements about his past) it's about the best I expected of him. Lets just say he's not my favorite Pope.
There are lots of religions which don't have one leader (The various catholic faiths have various sorts of one leader, but apart from the Pope, those are much of a muchness of "primus inter pares"), and even the Pope has limited powers of being right (I'll not go into the inherent diffulties of the "inerrant" doctrince of "Ex cathedra which is no small part of why I ended up in the Army instead of the Jesuits).
Even the Mormons, with their Prophet have a disorganised lower structure, where anyone (who is male) can be the beneficiary of revelations.
I don't see that having one "supreme" leader, who can be somehow held to account for the, spontaneous, reactions of the members of the faith is a good thing. Is the Pope to be held accountatble when Catholics choose to murder homosexuals, or abortion providers? No.
Should he condemn their actions, yes. Has he. No.
Does that make the Church guilty? I don't think so.
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Me, I think his apology ought to have been abject, but looking at his lack of introspection (based on his statements about his past) it's about the best I expected of him. Lets just say he's not my favorite Pope.
There are lots of religions which don't have one leader (The various catholic faiths have various sorts of one leader, but apart from the Pope, those are much of a muchness of "primus inter pares"), and even the Pope has limited powers of being right (I'll not go into the inherent diffulties of the "inerrant" doctrince of "Ex cathedra which is no small part of why I ended up in the Army instead of the Jesuits).
Even the Mormons, with their Prophet have a disorganised lower structure, where anyone (who is male) can be the beneficiary of revelations.
I don't see that having one "supreme" leader, who can be somehow held to account for the, spontaneous, reactions of the members of the faith is a good thing. Is the Pope to be held accountatble when Catholics choose to murder homosexuals, or abortion providers? No.
Should he condemn their actions, yes. Has he. No.
Does that make the Church guilty? I don't think so.
TK