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1 Note | Church and the Faults of the Past” was proposed to the International
2 Intro | violence that are the legacy of past faults, through a renewed
3 Intro | because the consequences of past faults still make themselves
4 Intro | implore forgiveness for the past and present sins of her
5 Intro | forgiveness for the faults of the past.~The International Theological
6 Intro | recognition of the faults of the past. The questions it seeks
7 Intro | that ground repentance for past faults.~Having noted the
8 Intro (2)| regarding the faults of the past and for giving an example
9 Intro | sons and daughters of the past and of the present, in a
10 Intro | herself also the weight of past faults in order to purify
11 Intro | repentance for the faults of the past. Nevertheless, in the knowledge
12 Intro | recognize the faults both of the past and of the present, so that
13 Intro | regarding the faults of the past have an exemplary and prophetic
14 1, 1 | any faults in the Church’s past, nor of the need to ask
15 1, 1 | in the recent or remote past.~Indeed, in the entire history
16 1, 1 | forgiveness by the Magisterium for past wrongs. Councils and papal
17 1, 2 | negative episodes from the past for which Christians bore
18 1, 2 | living for faults of the past. In effect, the Council
19 1, 2 | non-imputability to those now living of past faults committed by members
20 1, 3 | occurred in the course of the past millennium.21~The Church
21 1, 3 | through repentance, of past errors and instances of
22 1, 3 | the Church of today with past faults. Some of these are
23 1, 3 | intolerance” used in the past to evangelize.25~John Paul
24 1, 3 | responsibility for the wrongs of the past and of possibly asking forgiveness
25 1, 4 | large part, the Church’s past structures her present.
26 1, 4 | remembrance of scandals of the past can become an obstacle to
27 1, 4 | and the recognition of the past faults of the Church’s sons
28 1, 4 | emerges is that of defining past faults, above all, because
29 1, 4 | requires. In events of the past, one must always distinguish
30 1, 4 | pardon for faults of the past have been understood in
31 1, 4 | of an acknowledgement of past wrongs. Also from this point
32 1, 4 | she was involved in the past simply by taking part in
33 1, 4 | responsible for the evils of the past, by seeking at the same
34 1, 4 | themselves still wounded by past acts imputable to the children
35 1, 4 | easy to judge people of the past by the conscience of today (
36 1, 4 | requests for forgiveness for past wrongs, especially if addressed
37 2 | confess the faults of the past?~
38 2 (33) | psalmist recounts the sins of past generations from the time
39 2, 2 | attention to sins of the past in order to ask for forgiveness.
40 2, 2 | the future rather than the past. There is, however, a more
41 2, 2 | confess the faults of the past, although the recognition
42 2, 3 | reconciliation and overcoming of past situations is represented
43 2, 4 | sons and daughters in the past, as well as the ways in
44 3 | the present as well as the past, in the unity of the mystery
45 3, 4 | amends for… [the sins of the past], and earnestly beseech
46 4 | determination of the wrongs of the past, for which amends are to
47 4 | amends for faults of the past.~The relationship between “
48 4 | it rely on images of the past steered by public opinion,
49 4, 1 | correct interpretation of the past from the point of view of
50 4, 1 | and the object from the past which is interpreted.65
51 4, 1 | Events or words of the past are, above all, “past.”
52 4, 1 | the past are, above all, “past.” As such they are not completely
53 4, 1 | communication could exist between past and present. This communicative
54 4, 1 | multiple forms by which the past leaves evidence of itself (
55 4, 1 | of communication between past and present, as indicated
56 4, 1 | own understanding of the past words and events. This requires
57 4, 1 | interpreter and the object of the past that is interpreted, in
58 4, 1 | the events or words of the past; it is equivalent to grasping
59 4, 1 | worlds, understanding of the past is translated into its application
60 4, 1 | application to the present. The past is grasped in the potentialities
61 4, 1 | fruitful osmosis with the past is reached through the interwovenness
62 4, 1 | relation to a “text” of the past (understood in a general
63 4, 1 | Understanding the evidence of the past means reaching it as far
64 4, 1 | dialogue created with the past, in order both to verify
65 4, 2 | and extraneousness between past and present. In particular,
66 4, 2 | the possible wrongs of the past, it must be kept in mind
67 4, 2 | faith, the bond between past and present is not motivated
68 4, 2 | recognizes in the Church’s past a very particular significance
69 4, 2 | The encounter with the past, produced in the act of
70 4, 2 | exercise aimed at understanding past events and statements and
71 4, 2 | distinctive vision, thus making past and present interact in
72 4, 2 | relativize the weight of past wrongs and make history
73 4, 2 | the investigation of the past to patient, honest, scholarly
74 5 | history, especially in the past millennium. It is not possible
75 5, 1 | solidarity that unites the past and the present in a relationship
76 5, 1 | committed the evil in the past and their heirs in the present.
77 5, 1 | forgiveness for the wrongs of the past, and then, where appropriate,
78 5, 1 | by the inheritance of the past, on the basis of a new and
79 5, 1 | possible to attribute to past historical deeds a different
80 5, 1 | express a new assessment of past history, which is capable
81 5, 1 | process of interpreting the past is connected to the ethical
82 5, 1 | the honest admission of past faults can exert on attitudes
83 5, 2 | principal divisions during the past millennium which “affect
84 5, 2 | It was a question of a past that, through memory, was
85 5, 2 | purify the memory of the past and generate a new one.
86 5, 2 | us from the prison of the past and calls Catholics and
87 5, 2 | to the separations of the past, doing nothing to remove
88 5, 3 | various occasions in the past millennium when doubtful
89 5, 3 | these painful moments of the past a lesson can be drawn for
90 5, 5 | faults of Christians of the past is not only to confess them
91 6 | taking responsibility for past faults committed in her
92 6, 1 | acknowledging the faults of the past.~First, these acts tend
93 6, 1 | a new evaluation of the past, capable of having a considerable
94 6, 1 | on the present, because past sins frequently make their
95 6, 1 | from what was done in the past can be removed as a result
96 6, 1 | by words and deeds of the past, such a removal may help
97 6, 1 | Acknowledging the weaknesses of the past,” the Pope emphasizes, “
98 6, 1 | the inheritance from the past.~A further aim can be seen
99 6, 2 | about the faults of the past, whether it be local Bishops,
100 6, 2 | account - in recognizing past wrongs and the present day
101 6, 2 | taking responsibility for past wrongs is a kind of sharing
102 6, 3 | Church’s acknowledgement of past faults are varied.~On the
103 6, 3 | Church’s recognition of past wrongs is consistent with
104 6, 3 | the faults of their own past. Just as the history of
105 6, 3 | taking responsibility for past faults should be explained
106 End | repentance for the wrongs of the past, and in each specific gesture
107 End | through repentance, of past errors and instances of
108 End | Acknowledging the weaknesses of the past is an act of honesty and
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