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Re: Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
By: guest98 Date: May 26, 2023, 3:06 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/priest-sexual-assault-allegations-archdiocese-st-boniface-winnipeg-1.6854754
Winnipeg man who alleges 2 Catholic priests sexually abused him
as a child sues Archdiocese of St. Boniface
[quote]
A man who alleges two Catholic priests sexually abused him as a
child three decades ago is taking the Archdiocese of St.
Boniface to court.
The Winnipeg man, now 44, is suing the Archdiocese of St.
Boniface, the archbishop of St. Boniface and the Red River
Valley School Division.
The man alleges the abuses happened in 1990 and 1991 when he was
a student at St. Jean Baptiste Elementary, then a part of the
Red River Valley School Division.
The lawsuit accuses two priests — Leo Couture and Rene Touchette
— of sexual assault.
Both men were priests at the St. Jean Baptise church and had
"unfettered access to students" at the school, the lawsuit
alleges.
The plaintiff was "dependent on, took instruction from and was
required to submit to" both men, the court filing says.
The plaintiff alleges Touchette and Couture asked him to help
with church duties during lunch and after school on multiple
occasions starting when he was 10 or 11.
During those times, he alleges the priests took him to a convent
building adjacent to St. Jean Baptiste Elementary and forced him
to strip and try on different pants.
The priests exposed themselves, forced him to touch them
sexually and "violently and forcefully" molested and sodomized
him, court documents say.
The assaults allegedly happened half a dozen times in 1990 and
1991.
"As a result, the plaintiff sustained physical injuries,
significant emotional and psychological pain and trauma and
mental distress," the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit suggests Touchette was moved "from one church to
another," and that there were complaints from other victims.
Complaints were also made about Couture, the lawsuit says.
The man is seeking unspecified damages for post-traumatic stress
disorder, depression, anxiety, humiliation, loss of dignity,
sleep issues, emotional stress and impacts on family and social
relationships.
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The Catholic "church" is nothing more then a club of child
molesters and child abusers.
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Re: Residential schools
By: guest98 Date: May 26, 2023, 3:30 pm
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Saskatoon Catholic school administrators under fire for leaked
homophobic emails
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Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
By: guest98 Date: May 26, 2023, 3:34 pm
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Bolivian protesters vandalize churches, burn priest effigy amid
anger over sex abuse allegations
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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of La Paz, Bolivia on
Thursday to demand justice over sexual abuse allegations within
the country's Catholic Church institution.
Burning an effigy of a priest, angry protesters gathered outside
two churches to demand action. Placards read things like "jail
for pedos," and "A church that covers up (for rapist priests) is
just as much a rapist."
Outrage against abuse allegations was sparked by the reported
publication of a late Jesuit priest's diary in the Spanish
newspaper El Pais, which contained multiple confessions of the
sexual abuse of children in the schools he ran in Bolivia. It
alleged Church officials knew about the abuse but did nothing.
Since April, some 200 people have come forward to say they
suffered abuse in religious-run schools in the country.
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HTML https://youtu.be/VahwMsuQbrU
The Catholic "church" is a world poison.
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Re: Residential schools
By: guest98 Date: May 28, 2023, 3:22 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon-catholic-school-superintendent-tells-principals-to-keep-kids-away-from-rainbow-tent-at-festival-1.6855825
Advocates criticize Saskatoon Catholic Schools directive to keep
kids from Rainbow Tent at children's festival
Rainbow Tent meant to promote inclusivity and diversity: Nutrien
Childen's Festival organizer
[quote]
An email the superintendent of education for Greater Saskatoon
Catholic Schools (GSCS) sent to his elementary school principals
has sparked outrage.
Tom Hickey directed the principals to keep students away from
the Rainbow Tent at this year's Nutrien Children's Festival of
Saskatchewan. Advocates say the directive sends a
[s]regressive[/s] message.
The Rainbow Tent will offer programming "from Drag Queen
Storytime to inclusive dress up performances filled with colour
and fun," according to the festival's website.
Hickey wrote to principals that "engagement and participation by
our students in that particular offering would not be supported"
because of the description on the festival website.
"Please be assured that GSCS schools are still welcome to attend
the Children's Festival," Hickey wrote. "However we ask that you
speak with the teachers who may be taking students and inform
them that the Rainbow Tent shouldn't be part of their visit."
Skylar Forsberg, one of the Rainbow Tent performers, says she
was livid about the email.
"The Rainbow Tent is about inclusion. It's about showing people
that we're in this together and that we're not going to back
down just because some people are having a little hissy fit
about some drag queens wanting to perform in the park," Forsberg
said.
"It's about entertainment and coming on down and having some
fun."
"A lot of people in the Catholic school system are hidden and
they shouldn't be hidden," Forsberg said.
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Re: Residential schools
By: guest98 Date: May 31, 2023, 2:18 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/little-grand-rapids-roman-catholic-church-sexual-assault-1.6859874
Little Grand Rapids wants Roman Catholic church to leave amid
sexual assault allegations, chief says
[quote]
The chief of a remote First Nation in eastern Manitoba says
community members want the Roman Catholic church to leave in the
wake of disturbing allegations a priest who works there sexually
assaulted one child, and potentially several others as well.
"I brought that up to the band meeting about our priest and the
community right away said, 'you know what, we don't want that
person here in the community, we don't want him to come back and
we don't want the church here,'" Owen said in a phone interview.
The meeting followed the RCMP announcing allegations that an
eight-year-old girl was touched inappropriately Saturday while
she was alone with Father Arul Savari at St. John the Evangelist
Roman Catholic Church in Little Grand Rapids.
Savari was charged with five offences — including sexual assault
and sexual interference — after RCMP received a report the girl
was sexually assaulted while helping clean the church.
The girl told investigators when she tried to leave, the priest
forced her to stay in the building, Mounties said. When she was
able to get away, she ran home and told her mom, who reported
the incident to police.
"It's hard to imagine. I'm kind of lost for words," Owen said,
noting people in the community are just learning the details of
the allegations.
"It's shocking and I think the church, the Roman Catholic
church, should be coming to Little Grand Rapids to apologize."
RCMP said Tuesday additional youth members of the religious
community have already been identified as potential victims, and
there may be more who have yet to come forward. Officers didn't
say exactly how many victims have come forward so far.
In a statement Tuesday, Southern Chiefs' Organization Grand
Chief Jerry Daniels said they stand with the girl who was
harmed.
"First Nations have sadly experienced predatory behaviour for
generations when it comes to the churches," Daniels said in a
news release. "The leaders of the Catholic church have much work
to do in repairing relationships with our nations."
"We still have residential school survivors that suffered
similar abuses, and this ... may be very triggering to those
survivors," Merrick said. "My heart is with the people of Little
Grand Rapids and Pauingassi at this time of sorrow."
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York Catholic school board votes against flying Pride flag
[quote]
The York Catholic District School Board in Ontario has voted
against flying the Pride flag at its Catholic Education Centre
in June. The decision came after advocates and critics clashed
for months over the issue.
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Re: Residential schools
By: guest98 Date: June 17, 2023, 5:26 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980
It's OK for denial to be "white"
Residential school denialists tried to dig up suspected unmarked
graves in Kamloops, B.C., report finds
[quote]
Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked
grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School,
not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te
Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been
buried there, according to a new report.
"Denialists entered the site without permission. Some came in
the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted
to 'see for themselves' if children are buried there," said a
Friday report from Kimberly Murray, the independent special
interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial
sites associated with Indian Residential Schools.
She did not say who the denialists were or when they came to the
site.
But the unauthorized visits to the site are the work of a "core
group" of Canadians who continue to deny, defend or minimize the
physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse inflicted on
Indigenous children in the Indian Residential School System
"despite the indisputable evidence of survivors and their
families," Murray said at a Friday news conference.
Other uninvited visitors, including denialists and some members
of the media, were disrespectful of the site, breaching cultural
protocols and taking videos and pictures of the burial area
without permission, the report found.
Denialism and disrespect exacerbate the pain and trauma of
survivors and community members trying to grieve and search the
grave sites, Murray said.
Citing international experts, Murray called denialism "the last
step in genocide."
"Denialism is violence. Denialism is calculated. Denialism is
harmful. Denialism is hate," Murray said.
Since findings from Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc were leaked in May
2021, the community and others have faced an outpouring of
denialism from some Canadians and media outlets.
A May 2022 New York Post headline called the suspected unmarked
graves the "biggest fake news story in Canada."
Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir, elected chief of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc,
says she stopped being able to use social media without "heavy
filters" due to the hate and racism that inundated her and
others in the community in the wake of the findings, according
to Murray's Friday report.
After the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced at
least 751 potential unmarked graves near the former Marieval
Indian Residential School, the most located at a single site,
Barbara Lavallee, residential school survivor and lead
researcher for the Nation said the community was also targeted
with denialism.
"Many communities have had to adopt security measures to keep
trespassers off the burial grounds," Murray said on Friday.
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Re: Residential schools
By: guest98 Date: June 29, 2023, 3:28 pm
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/search-suggests-88-potential-graves-at-residential-school-in-northern-alberta-1.6461054
Search suggests 88 potential graves at residential school in
northern Alberta
[quote]
Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers
never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential
school in northern Alberta.
"I always had to stay on high alert when I was there," Willier
said, as he recalled his time between the age of seven and 17 at
St. Bruno's Indian Residential School in Joussard, Alta., about
335 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
"I was always told, 'Oh, you got to be careful of them (at
residential school)."'
University of Alberta researchers recently found evidence of 88
potential unmarked graves near the former school.
She said the team found signs of unmarked graves outside of the
school cemetery area at two locations -- one of them close to
the workshop on the school's grounds, the other near the
priest's residence.
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: guest98 Date: July 24, 2023, 3:00 pm
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HTML https://www.cp24.com/world/a-long-journey-reconciliation-happening-day-by-day-one-year-after-pope-s-apology-1.6490843
'A long journey': Reconciliation happening day by day, one year
after Pope's apology
[quote]
Pope Francis said he was sorry for the Roman Catholic Church's
role in the cultural destruction and forced assimilation of
Indigenous people, which culminated in residential schools.
The apologies met a mixed response. Many Indigenous people said
it was necessary, especially for residential school survivors,
because it meant the head of the Catholic Church was finally
recognizing harms were committed.
Some criticized Francis for not going far enough. Others thought
Indigenous Peoples and organizations should disengage with the
church altogether because they’d expended enough energy on it.
Many called for actions, not words.
The abuse inside the schools was long kept quiet nationally, but
Fontaine broke the silence in 1990 when he spoke about his own
experiences at the Fort Alexander Residential School in
Manitoba.
Pope Francis asked Canadian Catholics to commit to four things:
to ensure history is told in a truthful way; to support
Indigenous language, culture and traditions; to be an ally in
the pursuit of justice; and to appreciate Indigenous wisdom to
care for the land and environment.
"It's easier to say it than to do it,” Bolen says.
Earlier this year, the Vatican formally denounced the
15th-century papal bulls used as the basis for the Doctrine of
Discovery, which legitimized the seizure of Indigenous land.
Francis said in his apology that the largest evil is
indifference, so now it is up to the Catholic institution to
work on dismantling 400 years of a colonial mindset toward
Indigenous Peoples, Gareau says.
Gareau pointed to Vatican II, which significantly modernized
church practices to meet cultural shifts in the early 1960s. Not
everyone immediately embraced the structural changes, but it
eventually revolutionized the church.
Francis has steered the ship in a direction toward
reconciliation, Gareau says. But the church must now recognize
Indigenous sovereignty, and that means engaging in diplomatic
relations and returning land.
It also means changing the hearts and mind of Catholics and
dismantling anti-Indigenous structural racism — work that cannot
and should not rely on Indigenous people.
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Re: Residential schools
By: I Date: September 30, 2023, 8:44 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/9997057/all-canadians-need-to-confront-the-past-trudeau-in-saskatchewan-marking-truth-and-reconciliation-day/
‘All Canadians need to confront the past’: Trudeau in Sask.
marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
[quote]
“This is a challenging day, it’s a day where all Canadians need
to confront the fact that our past was not what we would want it
to be,” Trudeau said. “There are many who’d like us to simply
brush over the past and pretend it didn’t happen because they
feel that talking about Truth and reconciliation, marking this
day, somehow diminishes us.”
He said that recognizing the truth of the past is the only way
to to make Canada “the country we know we can be.”
“Today is about the residential school survivors, their families
and also the children that didn’t make it home,” she said.
Cook-Seasron, a third generation residential school survivor,
went on to share stories of her experiences in school, including
incidents of sexual assaults.
“We were made to feel less-than, like we didn’t matter,” she
said.
A bridge on Highway 2 that connects the Village of Air Ronge and
the Town of La Ronge was renamed Reconciliation Bridge. A new
sign was unveiled at a ceremony on September 30.
“‘Mitho Wechewitowin Asokun – Reconciliation Bridge’ stands as a
powerful and perpetual symbol for our community and for all who
pass through the La Ronge area,” Cook-Searson said.
“As we move forward, let this bridge serve as a beacon of hope,
unity, and remembrance, embodying the spirit of togetherness
essential for meaningful reconciliation as we step into the
future,” she said.
“Collectively we must remain vigilant in acknowledging the
impact of residential schools, while paying tribute to survivors
and honouring the memory of those who never returned,” Lemaigre
said.
“I pray it never happens again, now we’re fighting hard to heal,
for people to understand, but I’m not sure if they will because
the pain is so deep,” she said. Shepherd added that talking to
other survivors who have have been through similar experiences
was the start of her healing journey.
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Re: Residential schools
By: rs Date: October 1, 2023, 7:22 pm
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HTML https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/residential-school-deaths-are-significantly-higher-than-previously-reported
It's OK for denial to be white
Residential school deaths are significantly higher than
previously reported
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As communities have continued to push for searches across the
country, the numbers have kept growing
Listening to the truths of residential school survivors was a
stark reminder that we need to continue educating people about
what happened at these schools, both for Indigenous and
non-Indigenous folks. I also learned and reflected on the
mortality at Indian Residential Schools across Canada.
Over 150,000 First Nation, Metis and Inuit children attended
Indian Residential Schools and although the official records are
incomplete, it is estimated that thousands of children died at
those schools.
Between 1931 and 1996, there were 139 Indian Residential Schools
operating in Canada. In 2019, the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation shared the names of 2,800 children who had died
in those schools. At that time, it was believed that there were
still an additional 1,600 unnamed children.
As communities have continued to push for searches across the
country, the numbers have kept growing. The most recent
collective findings from community searches across the country
(versus the official numbers of recorded deaths) suggest that
the number of deaths may be much greater than those originally
reported.
These new findings support the accounts residential school
survivors have been sharing for decades and provides context
into the severity of the genocide enacted on Indigenous Peoples
in Canada.
In July 2022, Pope Francis affirmed these accounts and called
the Indian Residential Schools an act of genocide.
However, in the midst of uncovering the truths through these
searches, we are experiencing denialism. Despite the irrefutable
evidence, there are still those who deny or refuse to
acknowledge the abuse and deaths of Indigenous children in
residential schools.
Indigenous scholars, leaders and survivors have long known that
the number of deaths of children in residential schools was
substantial. Now, as new research and data is produced, we will
continue to see the official numbers grow.
it’s horrible to have to address denialism during this time of
mourning and healing in our communities.
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