Yes, I think I'm pretty much with you; there are lots of more current issues which should be addressed, and issueing an apology to a dead person from someone who had nothing to do with it seems a bit pointless.
Here, have a faintly amusing anecdote about something tangentially related; a few years ago, the Vatican decided to apologise for the Inquisitions, and they organised a conference on the subject. What with my dad being a "leading Catholic Historian" and a bit of an expert in both the Reformation and the history of the papacy, they invited him to come along and give a paper on the inquisitions in England and ireland, in order that they might know properly what they were apologising for. He replied, pointing out that while he was quite happy to do so if they liked (they were going to pay his costs and so on), it would be rather a short paper, given that there was't an Inquisition in England or Ireland.
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Date: 2009-09-03 11:50 pm (UTC)Here, have a faintly amusing anecdote about something tangentially related; a few years ago, the Vatican decided to apologise for the Inquisitions, and they organised a conference on the subject. What with my dad being a "leading Catholic Historian" and a bit of an expert in both the Reformation and the history of the papacy, they invited him to come along and give a paper on the inquisitions in England and ireland, in order that they might know properly what they were apologising for.
He replied, pointing out that while he was quite happy to do so if they liked (they were going to pay his costs and so on), it would be rather a short paper, given that there was't an Inquisition in England or Ireland.