Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pope has just completed a trip to the Dominican Republic to celebrate the arrival of Christianity 500 years ago with the arrival of Christopher Columbus. As the chief evangelist of Christ's gospel on earth, the visit was indisputably inappropriate, whatever one thinks of the fifteenth century explorer...
...during the visit, the best the Pope could come up with by way of denouncing the brutality, slavery and genocide initiated by Columbus--in many cases, in the name, and with the justification of the Church--was that the Vatican tried to restrain the troops' excesses...
Later, the Pope met with and expressed support for a group of conservative bishops from Haiti--a cabal appointed by the church and long implicated in the suffering of the Haitian people...
After that meeting, the Pope did receive privately, Bishop Willy Romelus, an Aristide supporter whom the military arrested several times since the coup, but the Vatican made on statement in his support...
...this should come as no surprise to the Pope who launched his tenure with attacks on the so-called "liberation theology," practiced by many of his clergy in Latin America. But John Paul II has also used his office to rein in American and other western bishops for theological deviations...