Posted on 04/04/2022 6:01:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Apr 1, 2022 / 05:50 am Pope Francis has said that he will travel to Canada in the summer, possibly for the feast of St. Anne on July 26.
He made the announcement during a meeting with Canadian Indigenous leaders at the Vatican on April 1.
“You have brought the living sense of your communities here in Rome,” the pope said. “I will be happy to benefit again from meeting you by visiting your native lands, where your families live.”
“I will not come to you in winter,” he said, adding “see you again in Canada, where I shall be able to express my closeness to you better.”
The Vatican has not yet confirmed a papal trip to Canada, though the Canadian bishops said last year that they would welcome his visit as a “pilgrimage of healing and reconciliation.”
Pope Francis said “it gives me joy, for example, to think of the veneration that has spread among many of you for St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus. This year I would like to be with you during those days.”
The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Anne on July 26.
The papal audience marked the conclusion of a week-long visit of representatives of the Métis, Inuit, and First Nations peoples to the Vatican. During the week, Pope Francis held private meetings with each group.
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He’s visiting the French?
Plenty of time to pack all his pagan idols.
The French are heathens too?
Who knew?
What about the Australian indigenous?
Pope will get around to them later.
He can’t visit the indigenous of Argentina. The Spanish and then the Argentines killed all theirs. Argentina is the whitest country in the Western Hemisphere.
If he isn’t burning in the pits of hell by then of course.
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