The last residential school in Canada closed as late as 1996! This program began in 1831 to essentially remove the indigenous culture across the country. There was seemingly no need for the indigenous people to maintain their traditions and culture. It was believed that people would become civilized if they adopted the culture of Canada according to the Catholic Church—whatever that meant in a relatively new nation of immigrants.
We celebrate a special commemorative day in Canada in memory of the indigenous children brutally murdered in residential schools across the nation for over a century by the capitalist, pedophilic, and criminal Catholic Church. For over a decade, September 30 has been known as the day of Truth and Reconciliation. The truth of this reconciliation is that there has not been any justice. The Catholic Church, the organization managing the residential schools, has not been criminally tried for crimes against humanity for the deliberate genocide and killing of over six thousand indigenous children among over 150,000 kept far from family. The crimes go beyond murder, as intricate measures were taken to ensure that indigenous children never reintegrated into their culture after leaving the schools. There have been no legal repercussions of the elaborate scheme. Are we to assume, then, that the Catholic Church is above the law?
All in positions of authority who do nothing to bring the Catholic Church to justice for another of history’s most gruesome genocidal crimes should hold themselves accountable. Those who do not use their platforms and amplified media reach to denounce a criminal organization responsible for crimes against children are misaligned to compassion and hypocritical to truth. Why live by a legal social order if we must tolerate the Vatican’s illegal actions? By what natural morality can we justify the rape and murder of children? The Catholic Church attempted to annihilate an entire culture and wipe out an entire race. In return, we orchestrate a ribbon-wearing ceremony rooted in capitalist pursuit of overconsumption celebrated with decorative merchandise. Can I propose the same for all criminal milestones? We can extend this capitalist ideal like Christmas to simply wear a different shade of ribbon in celebratory memory of every fascist organization hellbent on manifesting dangerous ideals.
The Catholic Church beat to death thousands of children over the span of just over a century—forcibly ending in 1996. If any other organization committed such crimes, surely they would, at the very least, be shut down. We have rightfully banned, criminalized, and vilified Nazism and its symbols, but not those of the very unethical Vatican State.
As a thriving capitalist organization established on pedophilia, rape, and murder, while legally acting as a charitable organized religion, the Catholic Church is not bound by intellectual property laws. There is nothing preventing followers from using the image, likeliness, and name of Jesus for their own purposes. There are myriad ways to stop the Vatican collectively. Donors should hold the Catholic Church accountable for the money received and demand transparency. Paying visitors to the Church’s locations must better educate themselves on the ways that their admissions fees are spent. If we can work toward becoming a functional collective, we should fund and advocate global lawsuits against the Catholic Church’s criminal behaviour. We can denounce the Church’s immorality in a pledge to Jesus’s compassionate teachings. This organization has nothing in common with the origins of Christianity. As a grand majority, we must defend Jesus’s image against misuse by the Catholic Church as it purports to follow his guidance in any way. Once we correctly identify the Vatican as a criminal real-estate holding corporation and cult, while separating it from any notion of Christianity and Jesus, we can then more easily subject it to justice. The millions of children the Catholic Church clergy and staff have raped and killed over the last two centuries should suffice to order this wicked organization shut.
Nonetheless, we remain fearful of the Catholic Church’s triple crown. A deeply wicked institution with the history to challenge the most horrific of humans for evil supremacy, the Vatican State has, just as with unethical capitalism, overstayed its welcome through its archaic mannerisms and intolerances. We have defeated and stopped great evil before; this will not be the first, but it may signal the minimization of the form of evil that is based in near-absolute immorality. Hitler and his army were stopped and decimated; the vile papacy and cult shall be as well. In an era of rising feminism, equality, inclusivity, compassion, and law in social order, there is no more space for institutions that harbor segregation, exclusivity, hierarchy, force, capitalism, and hate. The Vatican State is terroristic in scope; more so by its demonstrated acts, past and present, than North Korea or Iran. How many children have North Korean leaders raped? How many children have Iran’s governments murdered intently over the last century? How many organizations can we recall to have killed children and discarded their bodies in mass graves while never disclosing this fact? How many have escaped justice? None but the most evil: the Catholic Church registered as the Vatican State for immunity to law and morality!
The Holy Roman Empire reigned unethically and ruthlessly for a millennium to amass formidable wealth. As a result, the Catholic Church registers among the world’s richest organizations, and the Vatican State operates outside the law. Close to half a million children—of which a staggering 80 percent were boys—were raped and sexually abused by members of the Catholic clergy over the last century alone. And yet we are the ones brainwashed into confessing our sins. This clergy is likely beyond confession, compassion, and repentance. Guilt and remorse lead to confession. The pope, the Vatican’s internally nurtured and chosen embodiment of immorality, is clearly immune to compassion and indifferent to suffering.
