THUNDER BAY – Minister of Indigenous Services Patty Hajdu says she's hopeful Pope Francis's meetings with residential school survivors will help start the healing process.
“So many people struggled in institutions that were run by the Catholic Church. The Pope has, as you know, begun a process of apology for Indigenous people who have experienced that kind of assault on their personhood, on their personal, cultural and even faith-based belief,” Hajdu said, prior to leaving Sunday for Western Canada.The Catholic Church was at the forefront of the residential school system, which lasted from the 1870s to the early 1990s.
Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologized to Indigenous people in 2008 for its role in the mistreatment of their children for more than a century, but until 2022, the Vatican has had little to say. “Many Indigenous people are still faith-based and some are Christian, so this is of extra important for those Indigenous who are of the Catholic faith and still believe in a Catholic way, but also have that burden of harm that they carry with them from their experiences as children.”
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