As penance, I suggest that the church dismantle itself, distribute its wealth, go away and do something actually productive, and don’t come back.
Good for them for apologizing. Now what? Because that’s not even remotely enough.
Now they sell everything they have and give it all to the poor, as Jesus commanded them.
Any day now.
Embarrassingly late, as usual.
“Church’s role in harming kids…”
That’s a funny way to spell “church officials raping kids…”
Editorial watering down like this is disgusting. Even if it wasn’t intentional, if you as the reporter aren’t comfortable calling sexual abuse rape in a headline and have to water it down to “harm,” that’s another reason to keep it full-strength. If it makes people mad, good. The truth should make people mad in cases like this.
I think the issue is more so that the harm wasn’t solely sexual. They fucked up the kids in a lot of ways.
Including just straight up killed them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_gravesites
You’re right, “rape” or “fucks up kids in innumerable ways” is good.
How do you come back from genocide, handing over children (at minimum) 22 children rapists, kidnapping over ten thousand kids, and murdering 500 in your care? All of which took 56 pages to even document to any extent.
Apology doesn’t seem to quite cut it.
