We Must Never Apologize for the Canadian Martyrs

As one person on Facebook said about Francis's 'apology', St René Goupil (Protomartyr of Canada and North America) wants his fingers back'. They were chopped off by the Iroquois because he taught a young boy to make the Sign of the Cross.

From Everyday For Life Canada

The Dorchester Review recently published a well researched story debunking the Trudeau government and MSM narrative about residential schools, in Canada. It's titled  "The False Narrative of Residential School Burials" and authored by Tom Flanagan and Brian Giesbrecht. Sadly, Pope Francis spent nearly a week in Canada apologizing for what, the research so far shows, that there is no evidence the abuse and mistreatment of Indigenous children run by Catholic religious orders ever took place. Yes, that's right.

So, why the strong push with the anti-Church narrative from the media, the government and some Indigenous groups? Why did Pope Francis go along with the lie? The article tries to answer these important questions. In this post, the title is about the Canadian martyrs, since the Pope Francis as a Jesuit, refused to even mention them in his visit to Canada. We must never apologize for the martyrs. Read the Dorchester article and do spread the word:

“We all heard of horrible lies created by some individuals in order to receive as much money as they could.”
— former Dene Chief Cece Hodgson-McCauley, 2018

ON MAY 27 and July 15, 2021, press releases from Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation (Kamloops Indian band) in British Columbia announced that the “remains of 215 children,” “some as young as three years old,” had been found, and that this had come about because “we had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify”, and that the search had been based on “Knowledge Keepers’ oral histories.”

The Kamloops press releases were quickly followed by similar announcements at Marieval, Saskatchewan, then Cranbrook, and later Williams Lake, both in British Columbia. Since then, a number of articles and videos have suggested that these claims are a massive fraud or giant hoax. The truth is even more disturbing. They are not simply a fraud or hoax. Many of the people accusing residentials schools, and Catholic clergy in particular, of murdering thousands of indigenous children in horrible ways and secretly disposing of their bodies — with the help of six-year-old conscripts — actually believe their bizarre claims. What is going on?

THE PHIL FONTAINE INTERVIEW

RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS took centre stage after Barbara Frum’s 1990 CBC television interview with Phil Fontaine in which Fontaine, then Manitoba Regional Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, unexpectedly made allegations of widespread sexual abuse at the residential school he had attended as a child: “In my grade three class ... if there were 20 boys, every single one of them ... would have experienced what I experienced. They would have experienced some aspect of sexual abuse.” Although Fontaine did not elaborate, the scale of what he described suggested widespread student-on-student abuse.

Since that interview, preposterous stories have taken hold and become deeply-rooted in First Nations communities — stories of murders and clandestine burials on a large scale, of babies thrown into furnaces, of children imprisoned in underground chambers and cisterns, hanged in barns, and shocked in electric chairs, with the result that $321 million dollars of federal government funding has been committed to searching for unmarked graves all over the country, and helping surivors heal from their trauma.

There is no documentary evidence to support these stories. There is no record, for example, of a single student being murdered at a residential school —never mind thousands — in the 113-year history of residential schools. Nor — and this is key — are there any records of indigenous parents claiming that their children went to residential schools “never to be seen again,” as claimed by Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Marie Wilson.

This has not stopped indigenous leaders from proclaiming these conspiracy theories as fact, nor has it stopped the media and general public from believing them. In 2021 there were vigils across the country for the 215 children supposedly buried in secret by Catholic priests and brothers in the apple orchard at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, despite the fact that the RCMP and the BC Coroner declined to investigate, suggesting they did not give credence to the claims. To make matters worse, the original story of 215 burials in the apple orchard at Kamloops was amplified in a recent CBC Fifth Estate program, The Reckoning: Secrets Unearthed by Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, to include stories of sexual abuse, children who mysteriously disappeared, the lifeless bodies of four boys hanging in a barn, abortions, and babies thrown into the school furnace.

"Politicians and journalists hold their tongues and offer no pushback against stories that are clearly fictional"

Read the rest of the article HERE with all the footnotes.