All one has to do to read about the very recent history of missionary rape is to look into the residential boarding schools run "for" indigenous people by Christian churches in Canada and the United States.

The schools, many of which are still operating in the United States, were run for the express purpose of converting unwilling indigenous children to Christianity and destroying their languages and culture.

The last of their schools in Canada were finally shut down just before the turn of the millennium, but Canada continues to have a national reckoning as children come forward with accounts not of occasional rape but constant rape.

Not only were these children deprived of food, beaten, and given substandard medical care, a majority or at least a large plurality were sexually abused.

One survivor wrote recently in the Guardian of a school that is still operating in the United States, that the boys sleeping in his dormitory were a “smorgasbord” for the Catholic priests who prowled at night choosing victims.

He writes that many of these "missionary" priests are still honored in photos hanging on the school's walls.

Missionary position, indeed.

I recently published an article how about a new bishop Pope Francis just elevated to power in the United States. This bishop believes terrible and cruel things about LGBTQ people, especially about gay men, having written that we don't have the capacity to truly love. He's not shy about this, he's gone to the effort of self-publishing his vicious beliefs on Amazon.

The Catholic Church, long a partner in European colonizing and repression of people of color, has never stopped its missionary practices. To this day, the Church shames and works hard to repress any sort of sexual behavior they don't agree with, and much of it happens to be traditional and respected among non-white people. Powerful bishops in the church in Africa argue for putting gay people in prison.

That's their missionary position. And it's never stopped.