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polly7

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Fri Sep-16-11 01:27 PM
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4. That's a good article. Even if Canadians remember

how native children were ripped from their families and kept in residential schools to 'learn English and adopt Christianity and Canadian culture', it leaves little doubt how much damage was done, there have been so many horror stories of sexual abuse and years of mistreatment. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2008/05/16/f-faqs-residential-schools.html

Although it wasn't only the Catholic Church involved "On April 29, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his "sorrow" to a delegation from Canada's Assembly of First Nations for the abuse and "deplorable" treatment that aboriginal students suffered at Roman Catholic Church-run residential schools."

Yes, what 'Christianity' did to these children was horrible.

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