The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement allowed the Catholic Church to escape justice

October 07, 2021

It failed residential school survivors, and it failed the many Catholics of goodwill who expected better of their spiritual leaders

Wayne K. Spear, National Post

Oct 06, 2021

When the Indian Residential School lawsuits began in the 1990s, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops proclaimed that “the Catholic Church as a whole in Canada was not associated with the Residential Schools” and that legal responsibility fell upon the individual dioceses and religious communities — the Jesuits, Oblates, Grey Nuns, Sisters of Providence, Daughters of Jesus, and so on.

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Patrick Price commented 2021-10-08 13:57:49 -0500
As a First Nations person, this entire situation is at best deplorable and the result, unconscionable.
Michael McDonnell published this page in News Story of the Day 2021-10-07 11:28:08 -0500

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