[Margaret Pilkington]

Doug you have echoed my point very succinctly. We can no more apologise for the doings of our forbears than fly to the moon unaided. They acted in good faith at the time. The apology does nothing at all.......and the missionaries were under the impression that they were doing good works.
Maybe it was jesus who set the ball rolling by telling the apostles to be 'fishers of men'. Most organised religions are on the lookout for converts.....why should christianity be any different?
I just think it is a bit rich for the Archbishop of Canterbury to be getting into these sad PC issues.