Philippine E-Journals

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa: 500 Years since Christianity Arrived in our Islands

Karl M. Gaspar

 

Abstract:

On September 26, 2021 Pope Francis once again made a statement that further cements his reputation as a Pope unafraid to speak up to challenge his flock to embrace a Christianity so badly needed in a fractured world today. For, indeed, ours is a world divided according to our specific loyalties determined by our classes, races, genders, ethnicities, cultural and religious traditions. He was quoted as saying: “It is a sin to use Christianity to judge and exclude.”