Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous abuse’

Angry survivors want to determine Pope’s Canadian apology

Monday, April 11th, 2022
Angry survivors

Survivors of Canada’s residential schools say they should decide when and where the pope comes to apologise. The apology must be given to all survivors, and some would not feel comfortable attending a traditional Catholic event, the angry survivors say. The comments from the current indigenous leaders represent a new generation that wants redress rather Read more

Archbishop of Canterbury to meet area residential school survivors

Monday, April 11th, 2022

The Archbishop of Canterbury will hold an informal meeting with residential school survivors next month in Brantford. The Most Rev. Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, is visiting Canada from April 29 to May 3 to highlight the church’s desire to pursue reconciliation with indigenous people. Read more

Papal apology: like seeing fresh moose tracks

Monday, April 4th, 2022
fresh moose tracks

Like walking through the snow and seeing fresh moose tracks. This is National Chief, Gerald Antoine’s description of Pope Francis’ apology for the part the Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school system. “That is the feeling that I have, because there is a possibility,” he said moments after the apology. “Today is a day Read more

Queens’ statues toppled, churches vandalised as indigenous children protests escalate

Monday, July 5th, 2021

Statues have been toppled, and at least 11 churches vandalised in Canadian protests over the historical treatment of indigenous people. Tensions boiled over after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves in residential schools. The graves are thought to belong to indigenous Canadians. A statue of Queen Victoria was toppled during protests in Winnipeg, Manitoba Read more

Eyes are averted to indigenous abuse

Friday, November 16th, 2012
George Pell, sexual abuse and the Australian Catholic Church

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard’s, decision to establish a royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has received overwhelmingly public support. We know, on the available evidence, that the wide-ranging and expensive inquiry will focus on past crimes and whether people in authority, in Gillard’s terminology, ”averted their eyes” with respect to abusers. Read more