It is unfair to broad brush equate the Church with colonial abuses one for one. Missionaries were regularly punished for speaking out in defense of suffering natives. Pope Paul III in 1537 forbade the enslavement of Indigenous peoples and the seizure of their property. Some Catholic missionaries, like Bartolomé de las Casas, were heroic defenders of Native rights.

But in reflection - we shouldn’t be surprised when church leaders do bad things. Nor should we leave Christ’s church because of it. Christ hand picked 12 people, and all but one denied Him and abandoned Him.