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Pope Francis Expresses Sorrow But No Apology For Indigenous School Deaths In Canada

Pope Francis expressed sorrow Sunday for the gruesome discovery of a mass grave in Canada containing the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children. The remains were found at a boarding school for Indigenous Canadians, operated by Catholic clergy ...

It's so hard to apologize when you're infallible, because that would mean you were actually capable of being, you know, wrong. And once you've admitted that you made a mistake in one area, then how do you hold the line against a rethinking of all your other "from the lips of God" decisions, like that contraception is bad, that cohabitation is bad, that gay relationships are bad, that divorce/remarriage is bad, that women priests are bad, etc, etc, etc.