US congregations face their complicity in trauma of Native boarding schools
Posted on July 21, 2022, by Loretto Community
Published by the Global Sisters Report on July 21, 2022
Libby Comeaux CoL was interviewed as part of this story.
Libby Comeaux, a Loretto co-member who in 2021 co-wrote a Resolutions to Action article for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious on boarding schools, said congregational records are important, but are only one narrow side of the issue.
“If you’re doing an internal review of your archives, you’re not going to get the whole story. You’re going to get the story the sisters told themselves,” Comeaux said. “We do not know the whole story … and we have more to learn than our archives can tell us.”
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