Pope Francis arrives for the Mass of Saint Peter and Paul in St Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, June 29, 2022.Pope Francis arrives for the Mass of Saint Peter and Paul in St Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, June 29, 2022.said on Sunday that he hopes his trip to Canada next week can help heal the wrongs done to indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools.
About 150 000 children were taken from their homes. Many were subjected to abuse, rape and malnutrition in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide”. Recalling the meetings, Francis said on Sunday he had expressed “my pain and solidarity over the evil that they endured”.
The recurring schools scandal broke out again last year with the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops in the Western Canadian province of British Columbia. The school closed in 1978.
Just give a speech 💭 and done🙄
Pontifex would do better to stay home and bend his head in p shame for the sins of the institution he runs. This us a facetious act.
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