In a recent speech during his stop in Bolivia, Pope Francis asked for forgiveness for the church’s offenses during colonial times; he also spoke out against the ‘new colonialism’ of economic disparity today.

Colonialism was a major theme during Pope Francis’s recent stop in Bolivia.

He even issued an apology for the complicity of the Catholic Church in exploiting the indigenous Latin American people during their colonial subjugation. 

In a speech to working-class Bolivians, he was quoted as saying, “I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offense of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the na