Catholic Church on consent
2007-05-14 23:15:49.462191+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Why is consent so hard to pin down? Some of the Pope's recent remarks about South America might help give us some clues:
Benedict also defended the church's campaign centuries ago to Christianize indigenous people, saying Latin American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians when Spanish and Portuguese conquerors violently took over their native lands centuries ago.
"In effect, the proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture," he told the bishops.
Wow. Recognize any parallels in that language?