Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canada's Catholic bishops on a 'historic day'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/vatican-returns-indigenous-cultural-items-canada-9.6980307

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DonkMagnum@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 299d (1 reply)

Two thoughts:

  1. Canada has an ambassador to the fucking Vatican???
  2. When returning stolen items, don't phrase it as a "gift" in your fucking press release. I get that it's a probably a legal technicality thing but ffs there must be a better way to phrase that.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 299d

When returning stolen items, don’t phrase it as a “gift” in your fucking press release

It really highlights just how fucking evil the Catholic church is where they can't even pretend to be sorry about what they did. "Hey remember when we, in collaboration with the Canadian government, completely and utterly destroyed your culture, families, and lives in a full blown fucking genocide? Well, here are some of your priceless ancient artifacts back. Not as reparation for the literal crimes against humanity we committed against you, as a gift because we're so generous and merciful. We really felt the need to make it known that we absolutely did not think we had to do this, and you non-believing hellbound scum are lucky we did. Now thank us!"