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Article: Confessing church's sins of the past.(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 17, 2000
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Asking forgiveness for the sins committed by Catholics in the name of the church is an exercise in truth, said two Vatican cardinals.
Like the people of Israel in the Psalms, Christians must acknowledge that they have had "a history of rebellion, of sin and of failures," said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Ratzinger and French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Vatican's Jubilee committee, spoke at a March 7 Vatican news conference marking the release of the document "Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past."
The 19,000-word document was written by the ...