tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post2976110290197470557..comments2024-03-22T14:13:55.418-07:00Comments on wmtc: bearing witness: 215 tiny skeletons speak to us. canadians must listen.laura khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post-76504940292606983612021-06-08T05:21:49.737-07:002021-06-08T05:21:49.737-07:00Well, it looks like *someone* was triggered by thi...<i>Well, it looks like *someone* was triggered by this post.</i><br /><br />We can always count on our resident racist troll. Thanks for fielding that for me. I haven't read a comment of his in years. laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post-68027517166601872002021-06-07T23:49:44.588-07:002021-06-07T23:49:44.588-07:00Well, it looks like *someone* was triggered by thi...Well, it looks like *someone* was triggered by this post.allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post-43920897526569753662021-06-07T13:35:18.955-07:002021-06-07T13:35:18.955-07:00A logical assumption at this point would be the on...A logical assumption at this point would be the only people attending Catholic Church services in 2021 are unrepentant pedophiles and sex traffickers and the most racist, sadistic sociopaths imaginable. Because if you're an actual follower of Christ, you'd be looking at the Catholic Church and thinking: "These people are the exact fucking opposite of Christ." . . . And yet . . .allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593664.post-22355411518595655772021-06-07T13:26:01.205-07:002021-06-07T13:26:01.205-07:00Protesters on Sunday toppled a statute of Egerton ...<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/07/canada-residential-schools-pope-francis-egerton-ryerson/" rel="nofollow">Protesters on Sunday toppled a statute of Egerton Ryerson — one of the key figures behind Canada’s residential school system, which separated some 150,000 Indigenous children from their homes</a> — amid growing anger over the Catholic Church’s refusal to issue an apology for its role in the abuse students faced. . . .<br /><br />Since the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation shared news of the unmarked burial site on May 27, members of the student body and Indigenous communities have renewed calls on the university to change its name and remove Ryerson’s statue.<br /><br />In the wake of the statue’s toppling, university President Mohamed Lachemi said in a statement that it would “not be restored or replaced.” . . .<br /><br /><b>Pressure has also been mounting on the Catholic Church to issue a formal apology for its role</b> in running schools such as Kamloops Indian Residential School <b>and to hand over all the records that might help to identify unmarked burial sites</b> and the students who died or went missing. <b>The Church has so far refused to do so</b>, despite a request from Trudeau at a meeting in 2017.<br /><br />“That there are still church records that have not been revealed or made available … is a sad commentary on the lack of the commitment by the Catholic Church to allow us to investigate this further,” Murray Sinclair, a former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, told a parliamentary committee last week.<br /><br />Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, told reporters that she wants an apology from the Vatican. “We do want an apology — a public apology — not just for us, but for the world,” she said.<br /><br />Pope Francis on Sunday said during his weekly blessing in St. Peter’s Square that he was pained by news of the remains . . . But he conspicuously fell short of issuing a formal apology.<br /><br />“We’re all pained and saddened. Who isn’t? This is a worldwide travesty,” Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan, Bobby Cameron, told Reuters, in response to Francis’s Sunday comments. “<b>How hard is it for the pope to say: ‘I’m very sorry for the way our organization treated the First Nations people, the First Nations students during those times, we are sorry</b>, we pray.’"<br /><br /><b>Trudeau, who is a Catholic, said last week that he was “deeply disappointed”</b> in the Church’s refusal to apologize.allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.com