Cut back on comforts.Dear editor, Re: Church eligible for better residential schools deal (January January: see month. ). Since when was the residential schools agreement about the Anglican An·gli·can adj. 1. Of or characteristic of the Church of England or any of the churches related to it in origin and communion, such as the Protestant Episcopal Church. 2. Of or relating to England or the English. n. church? My understanding was that it was an agreement in which the Anglican church acknowledged that it was partly responsible for carrying out governmental policies that caused emotional anguish to many in our residential schools. We also recognized that crimes of abuse were carried out by certain individuals working in those church-run schools, and that we would show in some inadequate, but concrete, way our sorrow for those actions. Part of that agreement was monetary. Part of the agreement was to work towards healing Healing See also Medicine. Achilles’ spear had power to heal whatever wound it made. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Agamede Augeas’ daughter; noted for skill in using herbs for healing. [Gk. Myth. in other ways. The quotation QUOTATION, practice. The allegation of some authority or case, or passage of some law, in support of a position which it is desired to establish. 2. Quotations when properly made, assist the reader, but when misplaced, they are inconvenient. from acting general secretary Ellie (language) Ellie - An object-oriented language with fine-grained parallelism for distributed computing. Ellie is based on BETA, Smalltalk, and others. Parallelism is supported by unbounded RPC and "future" objects. Synchronisation is by dynamic interfaces. Johnson was very telling "In our case, we've already paid quite a bit to compensation; we don't begrudge be·grudge tr.v. be·grudged, be·grudg·ing, be·grudg·es 1. To envy the possession or enjoyment of: She begrudged him his youth. See Synonyms at envy. 2. that. We actually did that as part of healing as well...." She added, "if the government is going to pay 100 per cent of compensation for the (Roman) Catholics, they can do that for us too, and our money could go perhaps to expand our healing work." She states later in the article that the church's obligation of $25 million will be reduced and this will have positive financial implications for the national church and the dioceses which have been struggling with their settlement fund obligations. So, Ms. Johnson, is that extra money going to go to expand the healing work, or back into the coffers of the national church? In my opinion, we should be struggling with our obligations and if we have to cut back on our own comforts, then that is exactly what we should do. Any amount of struggling that we may go through is nothing to the lifelong struggles that these sisters and brothers are going through in their efforts towards their own healing. I may be naive naive - Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't "really good" in the appropriate sense). in believing that such an unwieldy organization as the Anglican Church of Canada will be trustworthy in its dealings. However, by re-negotiating this agreement because others have come up with a better deal for themselves (the old "It's not fair!" syndrome) you are asking me to be part of something which is against everything I believe in. Faith Rolfe, Cobble Hill, B.C. |
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