Christian Brothers defamed (Canada).

On December 4, the National Post published a front-page story on the Christian Brothers' saga under the title "Church shielded assets from victims report." There wasn't one fact in it that hasn't been known for years.

The so-called "report," also referred to in the story as "the documents," consisted of nothing but the partisan views of the lawyers for the liquidators. Terms like "misled" and "orchestrated" indicated the general theme that the Christian Brothers were supposed to have deceived the courts. The Archbishop of Vancouver, Adam Exner, was accused of the same crime.

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In reality, neither the Brothers nor the Archbishop of Vancouver, Adam Exner, "misled" anyone when diocesan lawyer argued that two secondary schools in Vancouver are not "assets" of the Christian Brothers at all. As noted above, that was even confirmed by a B.C. Court.

The Newfoundland liquidators want to sell these school properties right from underneath Vancouver parents and students who have no connection to the Mount Cashel disorders of 25 years ago, on the grounds that some Christian brothers were administrators and teachers there. The liquidators got their pound of flesh when they bankrupted the entire Congregation of the Brothers in Canada for the sins of a few. Now they even want what never belonged to the Congregation. That is a scandal in itself.