Speaking on CTV News Channel on Sunday, Cardinal Thomas Collins, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto, said comments made by Trudeau, who has called for the release of records related to a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., where the remains of 215 children were discovered, were "unfair."
Collins said the individual dioceses and archdioceses involved in the residential school system have issued apologies. He also pointed to a private meeting that Pope Benedict XVI held with Indigenous leaders in 2009, where he expressed his "sorrow." But Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, a minister with the United Church of Canada and a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, says the 2009 meeting was insufficient for many survivors of the residential school systems, who had sought a formal public apology.
"To suggest that the Catholic Church or the bishops or the Vatican or somebody is trying to hide documents is just unfair," said Collins.
The Archbishop didn't go far enough in responding to PM Trudeau. The only culpable parties are the British Crown/French gov/Cdn Gov who hide behind the Catholic church. Time for election in Canada. Bye Trudeau
Whats 'unfair' is that Catholic Nuns and Priests abused, tortured and killed innocent children. How dare he?!!?
Lol this guy.... the catholic faith has been doing stuff like this and worse forever. Lets not forget Boston and what happened their either.
You know what’s not fair? Paying for 2 school boards just because everyone is afraid of loosing an election. Time to merge all schools together that are publicly funded.
The Catholic Church needs to wake up and get into the 21st Century.
If a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church says it’s unfair, it’s obviously unfair! The Church’s reputation speaks for itself.
Selfish only thinking about himself and his friends.Did he ever think what they did to the kids was fair, Christian and Godly behavior?
Unfair ...? Because, what, your invisible friend in the sky says it’s ok, just ask me for forgiveness, and you can do what you want? SMH. Media should stop letting the cult of pedophiles and child abusers even have a turn at the mic.
Can we stop worrying about what's fair at this point? Everyone needs to accept it and move forward and actually act on previous recommendations that seem to get ignored.
Cancel the Church!!!! It’s about time they paid their share of taxes. Eliminate the non profit designation and make all companies pay their fair share.
The Catholic Church is responsible. they were put in charge of these children because they promoted themselves as the beacon of caring, love and responsibility. It is preposterous that any politician of any stripe would create such schools to brutalize and punish children
No...a lot of us seem to feel the same way.
Dumping children like trash is more 'unfair'.
So is the death of 215 children that they covered up for 60 yrs
When covid restrictions are over, i wonder how many will go to catholic church on sundays?
I'm done with religion
I don’t think even an apology is enough for such a cruel and criminal act! Otherwise all the murderers, pedophiles, serial killers and criminals can simply apologize and that’s it, no need to have prisons!! These communities needs justice
With your comments, you are still part of the problem. You will have to face your maker . . . .
Saskatchewan child death rate 2020 welfare care system. still happening lots of blind people out there. Most in foster care.
'Unfair'....what a strange thing to say, coming from this guy of all people. What happened to those kids...now that's 'unfair'.
Unfair?! In what way? Because it’s inconvenient?
215 dead bodies is fair?
Unfair is to pretend none of it happened.
The one thing I’m trying to understand is why all Catholic Churches aren’t being trashed as well. They ran the schools and should be held accountable.
No it's not. It is very fair. The Church was responsible for ensuring the bodies of the children were returned to their families for a proper burial, and they failed in their responsibility.
Get J.T to explain His Daddy's White Paper. Boy likes to go around calling everyone He see's a Racist. Lets hear His explanation.
This is so typical of the Catholic Church. Instead of taking responsibility and apologizing, they act like the elitist and entitled brats of rulers still living in the old world. It is disgusting.
Je ne suis plus capable de les sentir ces charmants personnages qui s'appelent; Monseigneurs! Hypocrisie crasse.
The churches grip on people’s weakness should end. Tax these fools. They’ve been thriving on the back of hard working people for years. They’re hoarding gold and money and it has all be acquired by lies, decent and thievery.
It is unfair because they problewerethe only social service of the time- as reservations re not able totake care or the many children who were dying on reserves for many reasons.Check that out! How many died or were abused there? Lol never find that out I divert attention!
This church is pure evil.
barblet30 You have to have warts on your soul to think that this is unfair. As opposed to the fairness that the children were dealt with.
What’s unfair is the treatment and deaths of all those indigenous children.
Why would anyone be remotely surprised? They are still protecting pedophiles.
F' this guy
What a sad comment! This man seems to have no idea what’s necessary to try to make things right
Unfair? That’s the last word he should be saying!
Everybody is missing out on the fact that going head to head on this issue are two of the worlds most highest ranked heavyweights in the The CYA Olympics. Its Game on, taking the early lead is Trudeau because he owns the referee and paid off the announcer. Stayed tuned folks!
BanCatholicism
UNFAIR?! I can’t utter the words to express my anger and disgust with this... What’s unfair is the children having been taken from their homes, beaten for speaking the only language they knew, mistreated, abused, molested, tortured, murdered or left injured from church & gov’t
Unfair!!... Taking away children from their homes and never seeing them again is unfair. Torturing children to death is unfair. Cultural genocide is unfair. Stealing land is unfair. Doing all of the above in the name of religion is unfair.
No it's not. What's unfair is the way the church treated those First Nation's children.
Canadian archbishop says turdeau’s comments on church’s role unfair…. I have already called that moron an asshole. What else can I do? Call him a fucking asshole? Okay, no problem.
The Catholic Cults need shut down,they are just a cover up for Pediphiles
He is unfair for not believing that the church has to take responsibility! Most of the priests are.... you know what I mean!
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I believe this. I'm concerned by the way culture is currently taking a million little steps in a direction which isn't productive and isn't noticeable, until you look back and see what happened.
This moral deviant is trying to deflect from the guilt that hangs over the RCs.
There are more than 200 reasons to call it fair
And what happened to the First Nations that were forced into these schools was…..
Tax the shit out of this cult and use the money to give reserves some clean water. Christ….how hard is it to do the right thing?
Why does anybody care at all about the church or what they say. Like literally has no relevance to me
So...I guess that means we'll have to wait until this group of Catholic leaders is dead before there will be see men who are already dead be held accountable. Maybe the next group will have some decency.
Such rampant evil in that 'Christian religious' sect. Makes my heart hurt for all the children that have been abused over the years. I knew about the young boys in the churches and thought that was horrible....but THIS........ And to deny it happened is beyond the pale.
What a fool the Ass is!!!
Don't worry everyone..Santa jesus fkn christ god will save you. Just pray it easy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
It's just another, in a long list of tactics, to silence the oppressed. As long as they squabble about who is responsible nothing needs to be done and soon ppl will move on to other news stories.
*Unfair* ?!?!? WTH!
Archbishop sounds just about as archaic as the word archaic.
OccupyVatican
This priest is creepy. He knows more then he's letting on, he knows what happen at those schools. Why because,he knows what in those documents, he knows of the abuse, the pedophilia ,the beatings the depravity.
Rh The church is woefully out of touch and clueless. Wow. Never saw that comin'.
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What’s unfair is people having to live in Canada
i just came here to bask in the common stupidity of the public expressed in comment form
So he basically wants to hide all the evil the church is used to and just have people forget it? Don’t think so bub.
Without minimizing the Church’s responsibility and accountability in the process…apologies mean nothing. What matters is concrete action, not MSM clickbait. There are clergy AND Federal Government employees that are still alive,should be held to account and will not be 🤬
Tiny violin time 🎻... The church's role in countless atrocities is beyond unfair.... It's irrelevant existence in a modern 2021 world is unfair.. Yet here you still are... Go away.
The federal government had apologized. Why is it so difficult for the church to say just a word? Where is the church’s moral authority?
The poor man is just wrong.
Prays jeebus….?
Unfair is taking small children who look up to you and making them suffer indoctrination into your cult of murderers rapists and childkillers so that you can take away their critical thought and control them.
Trudeau hurt your feelings and your main concern is getting that message out now? Disappointed.
It's unfair. Leave us alone!
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