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A quote from Papa’s semi-recent trip to Brazil: “The proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture.”

This blatantly ignores the church’s complicity and active role in the 15th century genocide that depopulated the Western Hemisphere. Of all major catastrophic demographic events (the holocaust, the black plague, the Irish potato famine, krakatoa), this was, demographically, by far the largest. Unless one chooses to redefine ‘alienation’ to not be a logical subset of ‘near total destruction of’, what the pope is saying here is false.