'I ask forgiveness,' said PopeFrancis, addressing Indigenous residential school survivors in Canada and expressing regret for the Catholic Church's role in subjecting thousands to serious abuse. DW's mahtabgh asks whether the pontiff's apology is enough.
Pope Francis on Monday for the"evil committed by so many Christians" in Canada's"catastrophic" residential school system for indigenous children.
The schools were meant to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Christian society, effectively stripping them of their identity, culture and language. TIn 2015, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported that thousands of children endured physical, sexual, and emotional abuse in these church-run schools which were funded by the government.
The pope kicked off his visit to a local cemetery that holds the remains of some Indigenous children who died in residential schools. He then stopped to pray at the site of a former school, where tents were erected where the notorious building once stood. "The communities and their leaders have also asked that the Vatican returned their stolen artifacts and cultural items that are held in the Vatican Museums," Morin said.
"The case of Canadian boarding schools is significant because it brings together cases of spiritual and sexual abuse, cultural genocide and colonialism, which formerly were seen as separate matters," Massimo Faggioli, Vatican expert and professor of theology at Villanova University in Pennsylvania told DW.
Still, the institution faces many complexities and limitations when it comes to fully acknowledging its record and compensation for victims.
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