Robert Kinghorn: Finding light in the gloom of shame A woman embraces her daughter during a rally at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, June 6, 2021. CNS photo/Chris Helgren, Reuters Robert Kinghorn: Finding light in the gloom of shame By Robert Kinghorn July 4, 2021
There are some days it is harder than others to get up the energy, and indeed the courage to make the trip downtown to the Church on the Street, and this was one of them.
For over a week, the media had been awash with reports of bones being discovered on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. This again resurrected the decades-old spectre of the residential school system in Canada, whereby First Nations’ children were taken from their homes to live in residential schools. The Catholic Church had been widely involved in the system, and in recent years its legacy has come under scrutiny and fire.
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