Pope visits St. Peter's tomb under Vatican

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22. This shows that the Catholic Church officials are all too human, when it comes to

admitting their own faults and weaknesses. Are we Americans any different?

How many of us would readily admit that we've practiced genocide against
Native Americans? In 1800 the estimated population of Native Americans
in North America was 20 million. Today, more than 2 centuries later, Native
Americans in North America number less than 5 million. And during
these 2 centuries, the population of every other racial and ethnic group has
gone up at least 10 to 20 times.

Guns vs. bows and arrows -- How fair a fight was that? It was sheer
slaughter! The Native Americans were defending their own land, the Europeans
were the aggressors.. It was a question of might is right. This, too, is human
nature. Throughout history bigger and stronger nations have always conquered
and colonized weaker and more "primitive" ones. What percentage of our schools
teach the truth as it really is?

The Germany of today, on the other hand, tells its school kids all about what
Hitler had done: how he grabbed power, his wars of aggression, concentration
camps, mass murder, genocide, the likelihood of Hitler himself having been
one-eighth Jewish ..... the whole ugly works ..... no hideous details spared.

Pope Francis started his job only some 3 weeks ago. Like you, I'd recommend
giving him more time. Nazism lasted some 20 years. The Catholic Church has
a much longer history than that -- something like 2,000 years.

How long will it take us humans to evolve into something less greedy and vicious
still remains to be seen -- if we do not self-destruct first, that is.