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Thread #158223   Message #3740444
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Sep-15 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
"The case against Mother Teresa" is pretty specious. As is the case against Junipero Serra, when you drill down into the facts and the circumstances.

I'd say what Francis said at the ceremony actually stands up well: "Junípero sought to defend the dignity of the native community, to protect it from those who had mistreated and abused it. Mistreatment and wrongs which today still trouble us, especially because of the hurt which they cause in the lives of many people." That doesn't mean he didn't make mistakes, like everybody else, and that there wasn't harm mixed up with the good.