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.
