Campaigners in London planned to petition the British government Friday for a posthumous pardon for the hundreds of people executed for witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries. … “We were gobsmacked to discover that though the law was changed hundreds of years ago and society had moved on, the victims were never officially pardoned.”
I agree with Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister who said (in response to the suggestion that the Catholic Church apologize to Darwin), “Maybe we should abandon the idea of issuing apologies as if history was a court eternally in session.”
