The people of Portugal Cove South seized their church after learning it was in the process of being sold to help the Roman Catholic Church pay a $104-million settlement to survivors of historical abuse
Cynthia Power never thought she’d be one to thwart the law. Or to threaten to drive out anyone new to the small fishing town where she was born and raised. But that was before last month. Before she and the community leaders of Portugal Cove South in southern Newfoundland decided to take matters into their own hands.
The people seized their church after learning it was in the process of being sold to help the Roman Catholic Church pay ato survivors of historical abuse, including those who suffered at St. John’s Mount Cashel orphanage from the 1940s to the early 1960s.Holy Rosary Church in Portugal Cove South was built in 1917 by the first families who settled here to fish the cod and has always been maintained by the community.
“Why would someone be punished for something that we didn’t do?” said Ms. Power in the region’s trademark Irish-Newfoundland lilt. “We, the residents of Portugal Cove, did absolutely nothing wrong and we certainly didn’t cause harm to those victims.”The sale didn’t come out of nowhere. The prospect had loomed since 2022, when Holy RosaryParishioners were outraged. They’d spent years frying pancakes and bologna at church breakfast fundraisers.
He repeated the same in an e-mail to The Globe: “Hopefully, if we can together accept the hurt and consequences of the sins committed against the innocent, then together we can move on to the healing, the reconciliation and the peace that God wishes us all to have.”
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