Barnhardt St. Augustine on the relative guilt of Pontius Pilate vs the guilt of the Jews [ Remember, the Jews were proxies for all of humanity, including you and me, and with every sin we commit, we too are Christ-killers. We should see ourselves in the baying crowd… and then repent and go to confession, and be washed in the Blood of the Lamb. Would that every Jew today would be converted to Christ and enter the Holy Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation. —AB ‘26] Office of Tenebrae, Good Friday, Reading 6 From the Treatise of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Upon the Psalms On Psalm 63 : T hey whetted their tongue like a sword. The Jews cannot say: We did not murder Christ, albeit they gave Him over to Pilate His judge, that they themselves might seem free of His death. For when Pilate said unto them, Take ye Him: and kill Him, they answered, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. They could throw the blame of their sin upon a human judge: but did...
HELEN ANDREW: Bartolomé de las Casas was a menace.."Pidal, the most eminent Hispanist ..“the only way to understand [Las Casas] is to assume that he is mentally ill.” Las Casas has been called a paranoiac, a fanatic, a chronic exaggerator"
https://firstthings.com/a-loving-ambivalence/#:~:text=The%20settlers%20abandoned%20Las%20Casas,blamed%20for%20the%20rising%20tensions. A Loving Ambivalence HELEN ANDREWS OCTOBER 8, 2018 SHARE ARTICLE T he Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish Conquest. For six days straight, two men debated the morality of Spain’s treatment of the Indians in the New World. On one side was Bartolomé de las Casas, age sixty-five, then at the climax of a lifetime of humanitarian advocacy on behalf of the Indians. On the other was Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, former history tutor to the heir to the throne and a staunch defender of the conquistadors. Judging their arguments was a panel of Spain’s most distinguished minds, and behind them loomed the figure of Charles V, ruler of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. The emperor had put a moratorium on all new expeditions in America while the morality of the conquest was being settled. Whether that ...