Pope visit renews scrutiny on church’s pledge fundraising for residential school survivors
Ken Young puts it another way.
The discovery last year of what are believed to be hundreds of unmarked graves at former schools in Western Canada also shone a fresh spotlight on the failures of Catholic entities to raise the funds for survivors in the past.Two-spirit Indigenous golf champion drives reconciliation forward as survivor of residential schoolsNow, bishops are preparing for the impending arrival of Pope Francis, who is expected to apologize for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in operating residential schools.
Those lessons, the conference said, prompted it to establish the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund and appoint Indigenous board members to oversee it. “Should a diocese not measure up to what their commitment is, then that particular diocese will have to be answerable to the public.” As part of its efforts, the archdiocese put on hold a multimillion-dollar campaign to fund cathedral renovations and a pastoral centre.
“In the church, it’s coming to see history in a new way,” Bolen said, “to see the history of Catholic engagement with Indigenous Peoples in a new lens, really attentive to the experience of suffering.”
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