Another Anti-Catholic Media Hoax Exposed: News of ‘Unmarked Graves’ In Canada Revealed As a Fraud

But, the media got want they wanted, a wave of anti-Catholicism that led to the burning and vandalisation of Churches all across Canada.

From The Media Report

It is yet another case of media hysteria getting ahead of the facts.

In May of 2021, media outlets around the world broadcast shocking news: Catholic-operated schools for indigenous children in Canada had years ago dumped hundreds of dead children into unmarked graves. Weeks later, the media then claimed that some "751 unmarked graves" had been found behind a single residential school.

The predicted frenzy ensued, with Canada's clownish publicity-seeking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordering the country's flags to be lowered to half-mast and initiating a "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation" as an acknowledgement of the Church's guilt. Outlets like the New York Times predictably trumpeted the news, and last February, CBS' 60 Minutes got in on the act with a long, condemnatory segment hosted by Anderson Cooper bludgeoning the Church. (The 60 Minutes segment was repeated just this past Sunday.)

So worked up by the media frenzy, people torched and vandalized dozens of Catholic churches across Canada, which the media tacitly acknowledged was justified.

And then the facts arrived

It was only several months later that scholars and journalists began to actually take note of some important facts: Not a single body had ever been exhumed from the so-called "unmarked graves." Not one. And neither was there any evidence of any unmarked graves to begin with.

Story after story had claimed that the use of so-called "ground-penetrating radar" had detected "abnormalities" in the soil below. And based only on these so-called "abnormalities" in the ground, the claims of "mass graves" was born. Of course these aberrations in the soil could have been anything, but it was enough "evidence" for the media launch another campaign of hate against the Church.

It seems that John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist was the first journalist to report what scholars began to discover:

"Professor Jacques Rouillard, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal, recently published a detailed essay in The Dorchester Review on what has been found at this and similar sites – and what hasn't. There is no evidence, writes Rouilliard, in any of the historical records kept by the government, that deaths of indigenous children at these schools were ever covered up, or that any corpses were ever deposited in mass, unmarked graves which were kept secret, and parents of the children were never informed, as tribal groups repeatedly charged and the media dutifully repeated last summer."

A 'pernicious lie' into the wind

Davidson concluded, "In a healthy society, this would be a scandal. A story that grabbed headlines for a week and inspired arson attacks that destroyed dozens of churches in Canada turns out to be based on flimsy, unexamined evidence at best, and an outright, pernicious lie at worst."

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a healthy society, and the media will surely never fully correct the record. Long ago, it seems the media abandoned any regard for the truth to the detriment of us all.