Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.special From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: IN QUEST OF SAINTHOOD Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 07:57:14 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: IN QUEST OF SAINTHOOD Publication Date: Sunday November 15, 1992 BYLINE: I hope that Las Casas has been a saint in the eyes of God, because his human decency was his alone and is in no way transferable to the Catholic Church at this late date. If the church opposed the horrors perpetrated against American Indians (often in the name of the church itself), it did a very poor job of communicating that opposition. The question is not whether Las Casas deserves sainthood but whether the church has the right to bestow it. SUSAN DE VILMORIN Bonita This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM