Far from bankrupt’: Catholic order that ran 48 residential schools faces criticism – CBC

Nov 24, 2021

Critics point to Oblates’ corporate-restructuring methods as means to protect money from liabilities

From the rugged coast of James Bay to the gilded halls of the Vatican, Evelyn Korkmaz says she has learned a great deal about the Catholic Church and its entities.

“Their valuables are more important than humanity,” said Korkmaz, a survivor of St. Anne’s Indian Residential School, the notorious institution in northern Ontario she was forced to attend and where she was abused as a child.

For years, Korkmaz has sought records and reparations she says the church owes her and other survivors. It’s a campaign that took her to Rome in 2019 for a Vatican summit on sexual abuse.

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