He was also urged by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a visit to Rome a year prior, to consider a similar gesture.
“With sorrow I follow the news from Canada about the shocking discovery of the remains of two hundred and fifteen children, pupils at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Province of British Columbia,” he said in June 2021. “I join the Canadian bishops and the whole Catholic Church in Canada in expressing my closeness to the Canadian people, who have been traumatized by this shocking news.
And it's time for all to turn the page...lest a pity party
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