Somehow I seem to have missed out on this bit from the Pope's tour of Brasil. I thought everything was going really well. The people were greeting him like a pop star. The weather was nice. Then he has to go and fuck it up by suggesting that the indigenous peoples of Brasil were "silently longing" to become Christians even before the conquistadors showed up and raped them, enslaved them, colonised them and killed them.
Come on Benedict. You have to be more careful in this day and age. So many people get ever so touchy over the smallest things. Maybe you need a PR man.
Come on Benedict. You have to be more careful in this day and age. So many people get ever so touchy over the smallest things. Maybe you need a PR man.
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