Posted on 07/17/2022 6:04:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness.
In an early July interview, he acknowledged the “cruel way” the Catholic Church collaborated with the Canadian government in “colonization” by uprooting Indigenous children from their families, cultures and spiritualities and forcing them to attend residential schools where many suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse.
Cutting children and young adults off from their cultures “is diabolical, it is to kill life and richness,” the pope said in the interview that aired July 11 on Univision.
Pope Francis is scheduled to be in Canada July 24-29, flying to Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit. He also will visit the site of a former residential school near Edmonton, join Indigenous pilgrims at Lac Ste. Anne and celebrate Mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré near Quebec.
Ted Quewezance, a former chief of the Keeseekoose First Nation and former executive director of the National Residential School Survivors Society, was at the Vatican in early April when Pope Francis apologized to delegates of Canada’s Métis, Inuit and First Nation communities.
And he plans to be there July 25 when Pope Francis visits Maskwacis, Alberta, home of the former Ermineskin Residential School, one of the largest residential school sites in Canada.
Quewezance was one of the first survivors in Canada to speak publicly about having been sexually abused at a Church-run residential school. While he still gets emotional talking about it — “when you shed a few tears, more weight comes off your chest,” he said — after the Rome trip he decided it was time to forgive and move forward.
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Pope Marx IS a sorry character.
physical and sexual abuse? Ooooh you mean rape.
Bergoglio needs to commence an another apology tour: for his nine years of unending attacks on the Catholic Church.
One of the very few times he is right.
The Catholic Church priests, nuns, etc., committed sick, demonic crimes on poor Indian children.
The Catholics destroyed families and much of cultures.
There may have been some good in the Catholic church, but there was, and still is much evil.
The Spanish clergy in the early centuries of the conquest of North America were notso nice either.
You’re already mixed up on your continents.
Not surprising.
Total BS.
What the F are you talking about?
Mexico, USA & Canada are located on North America.
Is he apologizing for the tree roots at the Christian schools being mistaken for mass graves thing? If so, he should ask the media who reported the stories without any credible proof and the leftists who reacted to those stories by burning down the churches in Canada to join him in an apology tour. He won’t, but he should.
The Catholic Church priests, nuns, etc., committed sick, demonic crimes on poor Indian children.
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Well, the Catholic Church sure wasn’t perfect but this narrative of what went on in the residential schools is falling completely apart as we speak.
https://tnc.news/2022/07/14/evidence-unmarked-graves/ True North has been all over this story... this is their latest from just a few days ago. “The announcement led to a series of Christian churches being vandalized and burnt down, calls to cancel Canada Day and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lowering the flag to half-mast for over six months.”
https://tnc.news/2022/05/19/guest-op-ed-one-year-later-there-is-still-no-evidence-of-unmarked-graves-or-missing-children-at-former-residential-schools/ TNC put this out in May...
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves And this piece is by Terry Glavin at the National Post, also in May.
When this first came out, Brandeau was all over this story like stink on a skunk. One only had to watch some of his statements for a few minutes to realize it was all a phony bunch of posturing on his part for political purposes.
So... now we have the pope on his ‘sorry’ tour over what likely will all be found out to be a farce.
This is not a new story.
The abuses of the natives at the hands of the Catholics have been known for decades.
What's this? They don't want to teach them nineteenth century European scientific materialism?
That explains all those Spanish-speaking Canadians, right?
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