The Catholic Church’s selection of an American not shy to criticise the US administration as their new Pope does not suddenly make the world’s largest tax-exempt corporation a bastion of progressivism. Pope Leo XIV is the 267th consecutive male pope in the 1,995 years of the papacy, at the head of an organisation that has yet to take responsibility or make more than
Those are important observations, David, at a time politicians and mainstream media are grasping at straws to find something "progressive" about the papacy. I am still gobsmacked that no one challenges the lie that Pope Francis "apologized" for the Church's role in the residential school crimes. I listened carefully at the time, and the full transcript of his remarks is readily available. He never acknowledged any misdeed whatsoever on the part of the Church or any of its officials (bishops etc.) or institutions - only individual unnamed "Christians". No doubt his lawyers cautioned him against inadvertently incurring any potential liability.
There are so many disgusting things about the last remaining Absolute Monarchy, which is effectively the ongoing expression of the Roman Empire.
But to keep it with Canada:
While it was negotiations on behalf of French settlers in what is now called the Canadian province of Quebec (the Quebec name used for provinces of France and Britain) that protected Catholics from Protestants, it is Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario that still run Catholic schools. Those schools and boards should be folded and assets preferably transferred to Indigenous Nations, but at least to the Public system.
The Catholic Church still hasn't fully paid off residential school compensation, claiming that the money should come from individual members even though the church itself is extremely rich.
It is disgusting that this entity, the Roman Monarchy, is allowed permanent observer status at the UN, privileging this violent corporation. It is disgusting that world leaders including the Canadian Prime Minister attended the maiden public speech (so-called "Mass") of this Monarchy, paying tribute to an entity that should be shunned globally for the damage it has caused.
The Anglosphere has allowed “freedom of religion” to mean that religious entities are free from any responsibility, when a separation of Church and State should be protecting the State from Church (the primary aggressor throughout Western history).
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Update: If you live in Ontario, you may want to write your MPP in opposition to Bill 16
Those are important observations, David, at a time politicians and mainstream media are grasping at straws to find something "progressive" about the papacy. I am still gobsmacked that no one challenges the lie that Pope Francis "apologized" for the Church's role in the residential school crimes. I listened carefully at the time, and the full transcript of his remarks is readily available. He never acknowledged any misdeed whatsoever on the part of the Church or any of its officials (bishops etc.) or institutions - only individual unnamed "Christians". No doubt his lawyers cautioned him against inadvertently incurring any potential liability.
There are so many disgusting things about the last remaining Absolute Monarchy, which is effectively the ongoing expression of the Roman Empire.
But to keep it with Canada:
While it was negotiations on behalf of French settlers in what is now called the Canadian province of Quebec (the Quebec name used for provinces of France and Britain) that protected Catholics from Protestants, it is Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario that still run Catholic schools. Those schools and boards should be folded and assets preferably transferred to Indigenous Nations, but at least to the Public system.
The Catholic Church still hasn't fully paid off residential school compensation, claiming that the money should come from individual members even though the church itself is extremely rich.
It is disgusting that this entity, the Roman Monarchy, is allowed permanent observer status at the UN, privileging this violent corporation. It is disgusting that world leaders including the Canadian Prime Minister attended the maiden public speech (so-called "Mass") of this Monarchy, paying tribute to an entity that should be shunned globally for the damage it has caused.
The Anglosphere has allowed “freedom of religion” to mean that religious entities are free from any responsibility, when a separation of Church and State should be protecting the State from Church (the primary aggressor throughout Western history).
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Update: If you live in Ontario, you may want to write your MPP in opposition to Bill 16
https://r.flora.ca/p/ontario-bill16
Thank you, David, for this excellent article.