No other major Catholic diocese or religious order in Canada has made a public commitment of this kind to follow the example of a wave of disclosures in the United States
. Many of the U.S. disclosures have taken place since the 2018 release of a grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania that found priests abused more than 1,000 children.
Creating a list and publishing the names “is a way to move forward,” he said. On the motivation to do so, he said the Jesuits “consider it a necessary and appropriate response to the demand for transparency” from the church, noting that victims of sexual abuse have requested it as an act of reconciliation.
In addition to the settlement Father Oland disclosed, Mr. Blakeney said another $1.5-million was paid to victims in a residential school settlement, and separately about $834,000 in additional compensation to victims to victims of Father Epoch in the early 1990s.The Society of Jesus, as the order is called, is one of the largest religious orders in Canada, although its numbers have fallen.
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