Prospect of forgiveness stirs complex feelings among residential school survivors

"They killed our spirit," says Alexis. "Some of those wounds are too far gone. We see our young generation today dying of drugs, alcohol, a lot of them in jails because of the effects of the trauma that they went through."

Pope Francis is to land in Edmonton on Sunday before going to Quebec City on Wednesday and Iqaluit on Friday. It's expected the pontiff will deliver an apology for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools near the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School in the community of Maskwacis, Alta.

The chief of the Ermineskin Cree Nation, one of the four communities that make up Maskwacis, says an apology would be a fundamental step toward forgiveness."I will tell you: my brother was 16. He came home . First thing he did is he hung himself. So those are some of the truths that need to be revealed."

Natives are conquered people

Good thing the Jews were able to move on from the WW2 🤔

It was the government who pushed residential schools

This sack needs to bring the money that us tax payers now have to cover for these'religious' atrocities that happened well before the current population of Canada was even born!

He says sorry, you say not enough, we pay 35M and no one cares

How much money are they looking for!!

Of course they're not going to 'accept the apology' when they can just continue to milk it for easy money. It's a hustle/grift, not an actual grievance they're looking to reconcile.

the most Evil man in the world is this man claiming to be innocent and say everyone should obey him because he chose his own life and to follow this only means you like to be controlled because you cannot trust yourself

They dont want apologizes, just money, then more money when that runs out

Defund all religions NOTINYOURBOOKCLUB KEEPRELIGIONOUTOFMYPUBLICSCHOOLS RELIGIONISTOXIC ALLRELIGIONSARECULTS INDOCTRINATIONISCHILDABUSE PRAYERSAREPLACEBOS

The pope enforcing RACISM...... And Canadian tax payers flip the bill.

Forgiveness starts with forced vaccinations.

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