Well, I don't recall ever asserting that the abuses for which Francis apologized didn't happen. We sparred over that a while ago, so my memory is not exactly sharp and I could be wrong. But I do know that the Canadian government was the one funding the schools and requesting that the Church administer them.
Now, obviously horrific abuse occurred. And since Canadian Catholics were in charge of running them, it was their responsibility to ensure that they were run in a way that was actually decent and in line with established Catholic teaching on how to manage missionary efforts to non-Christian populations (back in the 16th century a Catholic bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, wrote a stringent set of rules that stipulated force may not be used to convert or impress into labor native populations. The King and Queen of Spain in fact took his guidelines and passed them as law, which is incidentally the birth of the Western concept of international law, but we do know that Spanish civil and religious authorities across the Pacific were not always uh, good, about following those rules...).
Anyhow, no. Not gonna say abuses didn't happen. The clergy running those missions should have died alongside their charges rather than allow or subject them to abuse. Let's try to be civil this time around when it comes to religion and politics. I'll do my part if you do. :)
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