Kennedy Hall is the author of two books, Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity and Lockdown with the Devil. …
It was May of 2021. Reports of “unmarked graves” of indigenous Canadian children were spreading like monkeypox at a George Michael concert. We were just coming out of our third lockdown in Canada. And as people started to gather again, the scuttlebutt around the dinner table centered on the supposed discovery of one of the worst sins in the history of the Catholic Church.
Not only had the Church participated in the awful Residential School system (more on this in a bit), but those dastardly priests and nuns who ran those places were not only pedophiles and colonizers, they were also murderers who unceremoniously chucked dead native children into holes in the ground. …