When did Pope John II ask forgiveness?

Answer 1

A:

Pope John Paul II issued apologies on a number of occasions, although most of those to whom he issued apologies were long dead and unable to forgive the Catholic Church. Some of the apologies he issued were for:

• The legal process on Galileo Galilei, around 1633 (31 October 1992).
• Catholics' involvement with the African slave trade (9 August 1993).
• The Church Hierarchy's role in burnings at the stake and the religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation (May 1995).
• The injustices committed against women, the violation of women's rights and the historical denigration of women (10 July 1995, in a letter to "every woman").
• The inactivity and silence of many Catholics during the Holocaust ( (16 March 1998).
• Catholic sex abuse cases (20 November 2001), email from a laptop in the Vatican
• The Church-backed "Stolen Generations" of Aboriginal children in Australia
• The behaviour of Catholic missionaries in China in colonial times.