Refinitiv Newscasts - Pope calls for healing over Canada school find

Church & Crawford

06/06/2021 17:04

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Description: Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was pained by the discovery
of the remains of 215 children at a former Catholic school for indigenous
students in Canada, but he stopped short of the apology some Canadians are
demanding. Lucy Fielder reports.
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Video Transcript:

>> Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was pained by the discovery of the
remains of 215 children at a former Catholic school for indigenous students in
Canada, and called for the respect of the rights and cultures of native
peoples. But during his weekly blessing at St. Peter's Square, Francis stopped
shocked of the direct apology some Canadians had demanded. Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau said this week, the Catholic Church must take
responsibility for its role in running many of the schools. Francis urged
Canadian political and Catholic religious leaders to cooperate with
determination, to shed light on the finding and to seek reconciliation and
healing, and he prayed for Canada's indigenous families. The residential
schools operated between 1831 and 1996, and were run on behalf of the
government, mostly by the Catholic Church. The schools forcibly separated
about 150,000 children from their homes. Many were subjected to abuse, rape,
and malnutrition in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015
called cultural genocide. The discovery last month of the remains of the
children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, which
closed in 1978, has reopened wounds for survivors of the system. Francis has
in the past apologized for the Church's role in colonialism in the Americas,
but he has mostly chosen to make direct apologies while visiting countries and
talking to native peoples. No papal people visit to Canada is scheduled