CBC NewsPope Francis greets Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations George Arcand, left, and others during the Pope’s welcome ceremony at the airport hangar in Edmonton on Sunday. Francis’s visit is aimed at reconciliation with Indigenous people for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools.
Thousands of Indigenous people are expected to converge Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis. Francis is scheduled to arrive Monday morning at the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School, where he is expected to apologize for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada.
Francis is set to speak in the afternoon with Indigenous people and parish members at the Sacred Heart Church in Edmonton. Later in the week, the Pope plans to host a large outdoor mass at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton and take part in a pilgrimage in nearby Lac Ste. Anne, before travelling to Quebec City and Iqaluit.
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secretlifeofCAD He’d better bring his chequebook
The Catholic Church should be abolished. It has never done anything good and currently still isn’t doing anyone any good.
What makes me laugh is that everybody understands how terrible that religion was for the natives, but nobody seems to get why Quebecers want to make secular laws after being under the tyrannic ruling of the same institutions for more than 200 years. 'They are all racists!'. Duh!
How does anyone think that a visit and apology from this old white man will do anything to help heal? HE IS NOT A GOD‼️‼️
What makes me laugh is everybody understand how terrible that religion was for the natives, but nobody seems to get why Quebecers want to make secular laws after being under the tyranic ruling of the same institutions for more than 200 years. 'It's because they are racists'. Duh!
Show some sincerity in your apology; open up the holy chequebook and then get back to your tax free hideout; the Vatican.
Tax the church
When are the so-called “indigenous people” who are in fact settlers from Northeast Asia going to apologize for all the atrocities they committed throughout human history. The first European explorers were massacred by “natives.”
Pope is getting off really fucking easy
I’m sorry I allowed and covered up for the priests that raped you. Is that about right?
Hows the investigation going into all them burned churches
Why is he sitting when approached by those he should be apologizing to? The disrespect continues.
Sorry for teaching you how to read and write.
Those saying pass, I want to ask, how is healing ever going to happen when you choose not listen. Healing has to start some place, otherwise how will everyone in Canada actually become united. Never forget the past but push for a stronger future.
Ask JT a question you pretend journalists. Ask if free press is over and if we are communist yet. Shout out a question. Hold the powerful to account. Remember your vows. Get hauled out screaming. Be a hero. The hour is late.
Old white leader of a criminal organization sits while others offer gifts and bow to him…. It’s Godfather.
CBCToronto I hope it is an actual apology this time. The last apology was not, in fact, an apology.
‘Cultural suppression’ - lol! It was cultural genocide - to ‘kill the Indian in the child’. Let me guess - ‘genocide’ is one of Dear Leader’s no-no words that state media is barred from using? DefundTheCBC
Solid pass
So now that the apology will be delivered, can we move on from the issue? Or will we still be stuck ruminating on it and apologizing for it for another 50 years?
Not at all interested.
Did he use the arrivecan app
Colonization did end the slave trade between tribes though...just saying
Bring on the cash/$$$ to make everything better.
Catholicism-like Scientology, but much older and more embedded culturally.
So we ignoring the mass graves hoax