Issues, ethics, memory
I traveled in Germany recently searching for information on my Catholic ancestors. While there, I found that members of my wife's Anabaptist antecedents had rebelled against religious and civic authorities in Münster, Germany in 1534-35. Leaders of the rebellion were apprehended, tortured to death, and had their bodies placed in cages suspended from a church tower. The cages are still there.
We traveled recently in Germany, where I sought out ancestral roots. Our guide, a family friend, has located us in church records going back to the fifteenth century. And he was able to document a murder that has long been family lore.
In July 2022 Pope Francis visited Canada at the invitation of Indigenous leaders and their communities. He apologized for the Catholic Church’s co-operation in what he called Canada's "devastating" policy of Indigenous residential schools.
Pulpit and Politics 