Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school abuses in Canada

about 3 years in Star Advertiser

MASKWACIS, Alberta >> Pope Francis issued a historic apology today for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.

Mentioned in this news
Share it on