Well, that gets them to the 13th century

"Pope John Paul asked forgiveness for the Inquisition, in which the Church tortured and killed people branded as heretics," so says Reuters today.

Isn't that special? It only took the Pope 771 years to recognize that the Vatican screwed up in 1233 when it launched an all out war on witches and people who claimed the earth rotated around the sun. Some 25,000 people were killed out of a population of 16 million.

I guess that means pedophilia should be on the Vatican's agenda come 2775. We'll be watching.