The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:54:21 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Residential school survivor awarded Vanier scholarship to further PhD research /item/25692-former-residential-school-student-awarded-vanier-scholarship /item/25692-former-residential-school-student-awarded-vanier-scholarship

Terrance Pelletier has lived through the tragedy of residential schools and all its social and political fallout.

]]> evan.boudreau@catholicregister.org (Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:00:00 -0400 ‘Spiritual abuse’ from residential schools had deep roots for First Nations /item/24743-spiritual-abuse-from-residential-schools-has-deep-roots-for-first-nations /item/24743-spiritual-abuse-from-residential-schools-has-deep-roots-for-first-nations

Blair Stonechild knows first-hand the devastating effects residential schools had on First Nations spirituality.

]]> evan.boudreau@catholicregister.org (Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:00:00 -0400 Church did not ‘weasel’ out of residential school settlement /item/22201-church-did-not-weasel-out-of-residential-school-settlement /item/22201-church-did-not-weasel-out-of-residential-school-settlement

A $21-million shortfall on a $25-million fundraising campaign was a fiasco, but it wasn’t an attempt to weasel out of the legal or moral obligations Catholics have in the wake of the residential schools tragedy, Grouard-McLennan Archibishop Gerard Pettipas told The Catholic Register.

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