Reply #45: Not defending anyone. I can enumerate any number of church inequities.

[TheMadMonk]

And so what? What the Pope and his cardinals did/do is no fucking different evilwise to what your elected officials and mine are doing in our names to todays "unsuitables" around the world and have been doing in our names for as long as there have been governments.

Like I said not defending. Just calling out a bunch of haters using this apology as an excuse to vent their bile to no good purpose.

2. Google anglican + stolen generation, then Salvation Army + stolen generation. Presbyterian and Methodist while you're there too. You might also want to look into the 10,000 odd children transported to Australia from England where the Roman Catholic Church most definitely did not set the policy. Then closer to home, you might look into organisations (mostly protestant where religiously affiliated) which specialised in keeping unwed mothers squestered from society until the child was born.