KARA MCKINNEY (HOST): Pope Francis is currently in Canada where he's been apologizing for the Catholic church's role in running Residential Schools under orders from Progressives within the Canadian government between the 1880s and the late 20th century. Progressives who wanted to give children the same schooling as white kids received. While humility is always a good thing, apologizing at the feet of a lie only reinforces the animosity some wrongfully feel towards Christ and his Church, and that's not a good thing, especially since so many people still falsely believe the Church to be some unique hot-bed for sexual predators.
In Canada right now, the main narrative that has led to dozens of Christian churches being severely vandalized and even burned down in some cases— and hey, where is our apology for that one — is that the Catholic Church participated in genocide, a mass murder against Indigenous people living in Canada. That is patently false.
Yes, it can be wrong to separate children from their parents and culture, as happened to many of those Indigenous students, but again, it was being done by progressive Canadians who thought they were helping Indigenous childrem. Mistakes in helping is a heck of a lot different than targeted genocide. Were there instances of child abuse or neglect? I'm sure there was, and only because any school run by any church or government will, unfortunately, have that. But, again, that's different than systematic and known brutalities being purposefully done.
We must remember that mortality rates from disease and malnutrition were much higher back in those days than they are today. If the alleged mass graves at the center of this firestorm have an estimated 200,000 to 700,000 bodies each, despite more than 150,000 children having attended that school system. And even still, not a single body has been exhumed or recovered, likely because the radar technology being applied to these graveyards are producing faulty readings, or are being read wrongly by biased researchers.