Catholic Churches being burned in Canada

[Didacus]

https://themindunleashed.com/2021/06/catholic-churches-are-being-burnt-down-in-canada-as-anger-grows-over-mass-graves.html?fbclid=IwAR1gyIjUcjomS5vb0cXNs6N05RRWSkp5ACvsLKBab5apyCl3TMeUPwklnZ0

 

 

[Clean Water]

The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americanst httpswww.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/06/30/native-american-boarding-schools-catholic-church-investigation

[CatherineM]

The issue our Archbishop has is that these schools were mandated by the government and often administered by religious orders whose headquarters were in other countries. The records are 50-100 years old and some of these orders no longer exist. He can open up the archives to researchers, but there may not be anything there for them to find. 

[dUSt]

This is a tough one for me because it seems to be so incompatible with our faith. How do we explain this?

[Luigi]

Keep in mind that, in those days, lots of people died young from natural causes. Especially before aspirin was developed in 1890, lots of people died of fevers - read "Little Women." I've done enough genealogical research to know that it was quite common. So the fact that children are buried at residential schools is not to be wondered at. The mainstream media, being anti-Catholic to its core, slants this information as if to imply that priests and nuns were intentionally killing the children who were entrusted to them and secretly burying them before anyone found out! They had no reason to do this, as they were usually paid by the head for the children entrusted to them; it would have been against their best interests because their income would decrease, oh! - and also, they were trying to raise CATHOLICS, so it would make no sense to neglect or abuse them to death. And by the way, Catholic residential schools for First Nations accounted for only 25% of the residential schools the government funded. 

The larger question of sending First Nations (or Native Americans, in the US) to residential school can be discussed at length. At the time, the governments thought it was best to have one common culture, practiced throughout the land and uniting the people into one country. That may account for a good deal of the anti-immigrant sentiment we've seen throughout the history of the US - "those people are different, they're not like us." Whether you think, now in the 21st century, that assimilation was a good idea or not, that's the way the world worked in the 19th century - in the US, in Canada, in South America, in Africa, and on, and on, and on. 

[Didacus]

There are many imprecisions and exagerations relating to this topic;

https://tnc.news/2021/07/12/six-things-the-media-got-wrong-about-the-graves-found-near-residential-schools/