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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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2. A pope like this one truly could have been helpful in the Americas from the beginnin forward to now.

Reply to delrem (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 19, 2015, 08:33 PM

Sep 2015

You're so right.

It could have been worth so much to have this voice of authority speaking to the invaders, murderers, thieves, slave-owners, torturers who plagued the Americas up to this very moment.

I just remembered hearing recently that 8,000,000 million slaves have died mining silver in Bolivia. What would life have been for that country's people had these things not happened? They weren't even allowed to walk on the same sidewalks with the European descended people who claimed ownership of their own countries.

I never realized your thought. I'm sure it would have made a big difference had there been someone speaking out for the poor who wasn't murdered like the liberation theology priests in the Americas.

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I keep thinking that this Pope is 20 years out of date. delrem Sep 2015 #1

A pope like this one truly could have been helpful in the Americas from the beginnin forward to now. Judi Lynn Sep 2015 #2