Catholic bishops fail to release details of $30M fundraiser for residential school survivors on time
A $128-million renovation to St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica in Toronto was completed in September 2016, one year after the Catholic Church told a judge that $3.9 million was all they could raise for residential school survivors. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) then announced a renewed $30-million national campaign in September, promising to release details last month. That deadline was missed.
When asked when the fundraising will start, Lesarge said more information will be made public "in the near future."
Chief Byron Louis said Canadian and Vatican Catholic officials could write a cheque for $30 million immediately, if it was a priority. He noted more than $300 million was devoted to Canadian cathedral and church buildings at the same time the Church had agreed to compensate survivors.
"They are protecting their assets. These are not the actions of a church. This is a corporation," Louis said.
Former Truth and Reconciliation counsel Tom McMahon agreed.
"They have vast real estate holdings across the country," he said. "They didn't need a fundraising campaign to hire all these lawyers to fight survivors. Cut a cheque."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon...-1.6294008
A $128-million renovation to St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica in Toronto was completed in September 2016, one year after the Catholic Church told a judge that $3.9 million was all they could raise for residential school survivors. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) then announced a renewed $30-million national campaign in September, promising to release details last month. That deadline was missed.
When asked when the fundraising will start, Lesarge said more information will be made public "in the near future."
Chief Byron Louis said Canadian and Vatican Catholic officials could write a cheque for $30 million immediately, if it was a priority. He noted more than $300 million was devoted to Canadian cathedral and church buildings at the same time the Church had agreed to compensate survivors.
"They are protecting their assets. These are not the actions of a church. This is a corporation," Louis said.
Former Truth and Reconciliation counsel Tom McMahon agreed.
"They have vast real estate holdings across the country," he said. "They didn't need a fundraising campaign to hire all these lawyers to fight survivors. Cut a cheque."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon...-1.6294008
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
