I have little to add; this is thorough, insightful and good spiritual food. I wish you charged for this substack--or more appropriately--at least charged me, because I take far less value from much more expensive things.
Regarding the residential schools, although I am but a passive non-Canadian observer, it seems the state and the progressives in control, as always, played a primary and essential role, consistent with the zeitgeist of the time to bring all under a public monoculture through the government school system and coerce the adoption of vogue political ideologies. As happens, Churchmen too fall for this spell and participate in the system, with the hopes of baptizing Christians along the way (perhaps a corollary would be chaplains serving and blessing the invading army of a malign power, without invoking the Truth).
But that isn't to take away your fitting balance that some still benefited from these school, and were likely even saved(!), so a blanket denunciation is simply not apropos or in good character.
I have little to add; this is thorough, insightful and good spiritual food. I wish you charged for this substack--or more appropriately--at least charged me, because I take far less value from much more expensive things.
Regarding the residential schools, although I am but a passive non-Canadian observer, it seems the state and the progressives in control, as always, played a primary and essential role, consistent with the zeitgeist of the time to bring all under a public monoculture through the government school system and coerce the adoption of vogue political ideologies. As happens, Churchmen too fall for this spell and participate in the system, with the hopes of baptizing Christians along the way (perhaps a corollary would be chaplains serving and blessing the invading army of a malign power, without invoking the Truth).
But that isn't to take away your fitting balance that some still benefited from these school, and were likely even saved(!), so a blanket denunciation is simply not apropos or in good character.
Another important piece of evidence that the facts have been smudged: https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/in-1959-indigenous-leaders-wished
... and churches, indigenous churches, are still burning:
https://thepostmillennial.com/alberta-catholic-church-burns-to-the-ground-in-suspicious-incident
Recommended: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-untold-story-of-the-popes-pilgrimage-to-canada/