Well I can see where you feel that way, but it's salvaged humanity as well as hurt it.
The Catholic Church has horror without names to its legacy in a way that few organisations compare. If I look our own history, in the 40s and 50s they found out that Canada paid much more for metal patients than orphans and since they only had orphans, maybe they might turn them into mental patients. It's as horrifying as it sounds. Many died, some even died after being sold to be performed medical experiments upon.
I believe the only reason the responsible parties didn't swing at the end of a rope (which was the sentence in Canada at the time for truly heinous crimes) is that they were of the cloth.
Unfortunately I can find no information at all in English on the topic. The group is collectively known as the Duplessis Orphans. The Church still refuses to apologize to the relatively few survivors and claim that its people surely did what they thought best.
However at the same time the Church was also heavily involved in the better documentes Indian Residential Schools which is another horrible series of abuses perpetred as a "final solution" to turn the natives into white Christians on behalf of the Canadian government. The Church gave some weaksauce excuses, the Canadian government still refuses to apologize.
The Catholic Church has horror without names to its legacy in a way that few organisations compare. If I look our own history, in the 40s and 50s they found out that Canada paid much more for metal patients than orphans and since they only had orphans, maybe they might turn them into mental patients. It's as horrifying as it sounds. Many died, some even died after being sold to be performed medical experiments upon.
I believe the only reason the responsible parties didn't swing at the end of a rope (which was the sentence in Canada at the time for truly heinous crimes) is that they were of the cloth.
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