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THE atrocity of Beziers in Languedoc in the 12th century by the Holy Roman Crusade, led by Simon de Montfort, in which 20000 Cathars, men, women, children, were summarily slaughtered under the auspices of Pope Innocent III, make the sins of the Third Reich pale into almost benign proportion. »Kill them all,« the Crusaders were told, »God will know his own.« How about that for paternalistic religious chauvinism, Pope John Paul II? Has any of your predecessors or yourself ever considered apologizing to the descendants--if any--of those so atrocitied?
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