Vatican studying Duplessis Orphan complaint
Members of the Duplessis Orphans group demonstrate outside the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Friday, April 2, 2010. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes)
Rod Vienneau
The Duplessis orphans still carry the false mentally retarded label on their shoulders, this has not yet been erased from their medical files, this has not yet been repaired. The survivors must obtain justice for years of torture & human experimentation, having been put into cells for years. 83 Duplessis orphans have signed with Attorney Jonathan Levy from Washington DC, The Duplessis orphans could never get a lawyer here in Quebec because of government and Church corruption, the Duplessis orphans will break this Conspiracy of Silence that still exist, the victims need to get back their dignity, the perpetrators must repair the Duplessis orphans case in a rightful manner.
MONTREAL — For the first time, the Vatican has vowed to study the Duplessis Orphans case.
In a letter signed by Sr. Enrica Rosanna, FMA Undersecretary, the Vatican responded to a lawyer's letter, explaining that the complaint is "presently being studied" by the "Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life."
The note came as response to a lawyer's letter sent to the Vatican in April. That note detailed the youthful sufferings of 83 of the orphans.
The victims were orphans sent by the Catholic Church to live in a variety of often inappropriate conditions, including the living in insane asylums. The events spanned several decades.
Under the leadership of now-deceased leader Bruno Roy, the Duplessis Orphans Committee agreed to PQ government offer of a $10,000 lump sum and $1,000 per year under the control of the orphanage.
Many of the orphans angrily denounced that 2001 settlement, which offered a sum far less than those made to victims of similar situations.
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