Apologizing for someone else’s misdeeds with another someone else’s money has to be the ultimate in phony virtue signaling - but I’m sure it makes them feel special.
They never passed up a chance to convert people.
The Church, along with the French government encouraged the St. Francis tribe to capture a bunch of New Englanders and march the survivors to Quebec to be sold as slaves, whom they hoped to convert in the process.
To a degree, they were successful.
Read the book, "Unredeemed Captive".
Several of the captives were closely related to me.
The Quebec government, France and the Catholic Church thereby owe ME reparations!$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!
But wait!
I also descend from French Canadian Catholics.
Do I owe myself reparations?
There are few 100% pure bred folks who have ancestry going back to the days of slavery.
A LOT of those who think they are owed reparations, if a proper genealogy and DNA investigation was done, would find they need to pay themselves.
This has nothing to do with “misdeeds” (all of the perps and victims are long dead); this is about wealth redistribution while attempting to remain relevant. My town has many large beautiful churches of various denominations, and they are generally empty.
This pandering while giving away other peoples’ money shows their irrelevance, just trying to stay in the news so people know they’re still open for business.