Pope John Paul II Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Apologies == {{Main|Apologies by Pope John Paul II}} John Paul II apologised to many groups that had suffered at the hands of the Catholic Church through the years.<ref name="Memory" />{{sfn|Pope John Paul II|2005|p=1}} Before becoming pope he had been a prominent editor and supporter of initiatives such as the [[Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops]] from 1965. As pope, he officially made public apologies for over 100 wrongdoings, including:<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/13/catholicism.religion |title=Pope says sorry for sins of church |newspaper=The Guardian |date=13 March 2000 | access-date=22 October 2014 |author=Caroll, Rory |location=London}}</ref><ref name="BBC News 1">{{cite news | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/pope/johnpaulii_1.shtml | title= Pope issues apology |work=BBC News | access-date=14 January 2013 | author=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="BBC News 2">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/674246.stm | title= Pope apologises for Church sins| work=BBC News |access-date=14 January 2013 | author=BBC News | date=12 March 2000}}</ref><ref name="Ontario">{{cite news | url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/popeapo2.htm | title=Apologies by Pope John Paul II | publisher=Ontario Consultants | date=7 March 2000 | access-date=14 January 2013 | author=Robinson, B. A. | archive-date=14 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114082949/http://www.religioustolerance.org/popeapo2.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> * The legal process on the Italian scientist and philosopher [[Galileo Galilei]], himself a devout Catholic, around 1633 (31 October 1992).<ref name="MsnbcNews2" /><ref name="Adherents" /> * Catholics' involvement with the African chiefs who sold their subjects and captives in the [[African slave trade]] (9 August 1993). * The church hierarchy's role in [[Death by burning|burnings at the stake]] and the [[religious war]]s that followed the [[Protestant Reformation]] (20 May 1995, in the Czech Republic). * The injustices committed against women, the violation of [[women's rights]] and the historical denigration of women (10 July 1995, in a letter to "every woman"). * The inactivity and silence of many Catholics during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] (see the article [[Religion in Nazi Germany]]) (16 March 1998). The [[Great Jubilee]] of the year 2000 included a day of [[Great Jubilee#Prayer for Forgiveness for Sins of the Church|Prayer for Forgiveness of the Sins of the Church]] on 12 March 2000. On 20 November 2001, from a laptop in the Vatican, John Paul II sent his first e-mail apologising for the [[Catholic sex abuse cases]], the church-backed "[[Stolen Generations]]" of Aboriginal children in Australia, and to China for the behaviour of Catholic missionaries in [[Colonialism|colonial times]].<ref name="PopeApologises" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page