EDMONTON (Canada), July 25 — Pope Francis arrived yesterday in Canada, where he is expected to personally apologise to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of...
EDMONTON , July 25 — Pope Francis arrived yesterday in Canada, where he is expected to personally apologise to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential schools run by the Catholic Church.
Afterwards Francis received welcome gifts from Indigenous leaders, shaking or kissing their hands and making conversation with each before the short ceremony ended. Since May 2021, more than 1,300 unmarked graves have been discovered at the sites of the former schools. The flight constituted the longest since 2019 for the pope, who has been suffering from knee pain that has forced him to use a cane or wheelchair in recent outings.
Others see the pope’s visit as too little too late, including Linda McGilvery with the Saddle Lake Cree Nation near Saint Paul, about 200 kilometres east of Edmonton.“For me it’s kind of too late, because a lot of the people suffered, and the priests and the nuns have now passed on.” McGilvery spent eight years of her childhood in one of the schools, from age six to 13.
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