Indigenous Affairs Minister says it’s up to Catholic Church to put things right

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/indigenous-affairs-minister-says-its-up-to-catholics-to-put-things-right/article29818908/

(Update to this thread.)

Canada’s Indigenous Affairs Minister says she believes Catholics across Canada are ashamed to learn their church negotiated its way out of an obligation to try to raise millions of dollars to help former students of church-run Indian residential schools recover from the abuses they suffered.

Carolyn Bennett said Sunday it is now up to Catholics to put things right.

“What we’re hearing is that only the Catholic Church and the Catholic entities can actually do reconciliation for their past, that they have to recognize their role in this terrible chapter in Canada’s history. And I think Catholics from coast to coast to coast are embarrassed that this has happened and want to help,” Dr. Bennett said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period with The Globe and Mail’s Robert Fife.

“I don’t think there’s any excuse for this and I think the whole of the Catholic Church needs to have another look,” she said. “There’s actually a moral obligation to get on with this and let the healing begin.”

What will the RCC decide? Will it do the moral thing, or the profitable thing?

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1. This probably won't surprise anyone...

...but when I was a good little Catholic schoolboy not all that long ago, we were taught that the missionaries who went north to convert the Iroquoian and Algonquian speaking peoples of the northern US and Canada were heroes.