The visits to two of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in North America come on the penultimate day of his week-long visit to Canada, where he has several times issued apologies related to the schools, which operated between 1870 and 1996.
SAINTE-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Quebec – Pope Francis on Thursday, July 28, visits two of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in North America as he winds up a trip to Canada centered on his apology for the Catholic Church’s role in the country’s notorious residential schools.
Thousands of people were arriving in the area early on Thursday, including indigenous groups from as far away as Natashquan, an Innu community about 1,000 km away by road. The visits to the two churches come on the penultimate day of his week-long visit to Canada, where he has several times issued apologies related to the schools, which operated between 1870 and 1996.People listen to a mass led by Pope Francis at the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, one of the oldest and most popular pilgrimage sites in North America, in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Quebec, Canada July 28, 2022.
More than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools. They were starved or beaten for speaking their native languages and sexually abused in a system that Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission called “cultural genocide”. The Pope said the Church was “admitting our faults” and wanted to join civil authorities “to promote the legitimate rights of the native populations and to favor processes of healing and reconciliation” between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians.
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