Holding the Catholic Church accountable for its crimes

[Anonymous]

9:07 again. Cardinal Woolsey, forgot him, Henry executed him in the process of trying to divorce Catherine.

But Woolsey and Moore were Catholics, so it doesn't really support your argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still baffled about why one poster, who apparently has no connection to the catholic church, is obsessed with suing the whole enchilada. I won't use the "b" word. But OP, are you a lonely loser, or what?

Actually, not a whole lot of blood was spilt in Henry's pursuit of a divorce. Except maybe Thomas Moore, Cromwell and a few others.

I rather suspect that those whose blood was spilled weren't quite as blase as you.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but the heyday of the Spanish Inquisition was around 1500 and the were totally gone by the 1800s. The Crusades were way before that. And Henry 8th and Mary?

Why not obsess about something more recent? Like, I don't know, like genocides against Armenians (more recent than anything you've suggested, the Holocaust, Kosovo, or massacres in Rwanda?

[Anonymous]

Dorrie wrote:I think this thread started with something recent: the disclosure of widespread sexual abuse within the Catholic Church's hierarchy.

Very true. But the suggestion from OP that we should also seek retribution for things that happened 500 years ago, or more in the case of the crusades, and the idea that we are "blasé" if we think the number of Henry's victims was small - when he did his deeds 500 years ago - strikes me as bizarre.

[Anonymous]

OP, after you have wiped away your tears for Henry VIII's victims, can you answer a question?

Do you support reparations for US slavery?

Nah, I didn't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, after you have wiped away your tears for Henry VIII's victims, can you answer a question?

Do you support reparations for US slavery?

Nah, I didn't think so.

AA here.

If I'm paying reparations for slaves? Then I expect me some slaves.

[Anonymous]

And I want me some long velvet gowns with stomachers embroidered in gold thread, so I can empathize with Henry VIII's catholic victims along with OP.

(And his victims were Catholics. WTF?)