Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica five-year restoration cost $128-million, giving the church a new organ, statues and painted ceiling, among other improvements. The work overlapped with a fundraising campaign for residential-school survivors that raised less than one-30th of that amount.As a Catholic, Lorraine Whitman has been to the Vatican several times to attend midnight mass and reaffirm her faith. Ms.
“A lot of Catholics think that’s inadequate,” said Prof. Moran, who is the former chair of the committee that oversaw the compensation process for survivors under the residential schools settlement agreement. “They want their church to step up and do more. It really doesn’t reflect well on the church, unfortunately … I suspect that people believe that they are protecting the church from liability. But my sense is that it’s really undermining the church’s moral legitimacy.
Other countries are grappling with past atrocities, and churches’ role in them. Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse uncovered decades of horrific abuses by Roman Catholic priests. In 2018, anfound the church had grossly underestimated its property values in evidence to the commission, which the Herald said raised questions about whether the church was trying to protect assets and minimize compensation to victims.
She remembers being called “savage,” and the constant fear of beatings. “There was this underlying feeling of unease and anxiety and the idea that you could get whacked at any time,” she said. “You did not feel safe.”
Many of these comments are straw man arguments. The Catholic Church has a legal/moral debt to pay & is in default. Assets should be seized in lieu of payment. It’s nothing to do with whether the church should continue to exist (although the church is eroding its goodwill in Cda)
attn IwriteOK This story is still unfolding.
This is either unintentionally inaccurate or intentional 💩
Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and other Christian denominations: they are targeting Catholicism now, because that's the largest denomination of the majority religious group...but they're coming for you next.
The Catholic Church in Canada is worth only $320 per parishioner. 80% of that “wealth” is tied up in buildings: churches, schools and the like The only way to liquidate that wealth would be to ban Catholicism itself in Canada Journalists are prepping the way to ban Catholicism
Globe and mail, a masonic dishrag not even worth our tweets. Our best revenge is the massive conversion of protestants to Catholicism, that is why the masons are trying to strike back in order to slow down the growth of the Church. Keep raging.
I read this book when it came out in the '80s. The author's premise that John Paul I was murdered was completely secondary to the revelations of the Vatican bank scandal and enormous wealth held. Most Catholics had no knowledge of this prior to publication.
Religions are all equally worthless. These are at best clubs and should not have any tax exempt status. Use eminent domain laws to take churches and convert to housing for homeless.
Because the catholics like all other religions this they are above the law. They follow the law of there god, and since the pop is their representative of their god. he decided what laws to follow, and what laws to break, because they are against their gods choice.
Because they are scammers.
CarbonConvoCA
Every one who has been abused by the Catholic Church should get reparations. Everyone.
The Catholic Church is also one of the biggest charity organisations in the world. Why should it have to pay reparations? The residential schools were a government project.
It’s time to end tax breaks for religious groups.
Weren’t residential schools a Canadian Federal Government program?… Anyway, once all churches are burned down by the wokest population on earth, there won’t be much left to sell.
I see all the bigots found this thread.
I think the g&m should investigate the rcmp and the government as well. Unless this was already uncovered in the million dollar truth and reconciliation report. Must be a slow news day
A beautiful church building’s purpose is to lift the hearts and minds of the faithful to God. That is money well spent and something will never understand.
Where's the government Responsible for all this Where's Daddy Trudeau involvment
Tax churches, use the money for reparations.
What if that was the plan all along? Develop an institution to collect money, gold, buildings, and souls. Become super wealthy. Do whatever you want with kids. Seems like the plan worked.
What are you drinking. Where did you get that information. It’s far from the truth.
Sickening! The catholic church is dead to me. Give the victims and survivors the land now! They are done waiting...
Can we talk about how Trudeau is throwing the Catholic Church under the bus to protect his father's legacy? Where has Pierre Trudeau's name been in all this discussion of the residential schools?
has nothing to write about so they have to keep attacking the Catholic Church. Big surprise that the Church owns buildings, sustains priests and bishops, and funds soup kitchens, shelters, support for the elderly? Stop picking on charities.
The answer is that they have to pay for burned churches. The faithful donate for the purpose of fostering their spiritual advancement & not to pay for the government’s failed colonial policies. All of Canada is responsible.
So it is about money. Thought so.
BradyHardin
Rhetorical question, right?
Evil entity.
It’s a cult built on vulnerable people all over the world. Time for them to pay taxes, too.
Because the Catholic church is like any corporate entity. The goal is to secure its survival and minimize damages. No surprise there.
For the genocide in the residential schools, the Church had been just an agency of the Canadian governments. Both should be responsible for the crimes against the indigenous kids.
And women are still excluded from the management and clergy structure. Any institution that excludes women from full participation must be held to a higher level of scrutiny.
The Catholic Church is a billion dollar corporation, which just happens to be tax exempt, and whose executives have charter protection to destroy an entire culture all under the pretence of religious freedom
Booze!?!
The Catholic Church DOES NOT need to pay a penny. Indigenous groups use the money they receive from everyone on additional litigation and complaints, maybe more irrelevant things. Those who were wronged get NOTHING. Maybe needs to investigate this?
The Catholic Church should pay what it agreed to pay as part of the Truth and Reconciliation report and its actions. But otherwise G&M you should be helping common citizens understand the truth in that 600 page report instead of spreading misinformation about the Catholic Church.
And the federal government who are actively fighting the families in court to this very day are worth trillions. Classic deflection….
This happened 100 years ago, this is going to be a tough grift for all the deceased victims to keep up with Covid dominating the headlines.
Why aren’t they paying taxes?
That’s a very good question
Religion is a place for adults who has imagery friends
Why aren’t they paying for their own security to protect their churches?
so what? Let the government pay, they started it. This is not 1900.
Church didn't get that rich by giving away money to compensate centuries of victims. It's all tax free too. So nobody but them ever sees a cent.
Because it's all about the Benjamins. End religion. Its worn out its welcome long ago.
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