The pontiff, confined to a wheelchair, will make the longest apostolic trip of his papacy to beg forgiveness from the First Nations families who lost children in the church’s care.
—as young as 3—who died in the Catholic Church’s care from the 19th century to the 1970s.
In 2015, the Canadian government launched a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to try to determine what happened to thousands of those children who were never returned home. The discovery of the Kamloops grave has led to mass excavations of other residential school yards in search of answers. In March, representatives of the groups met with the pope in Rome in athat was peppered with what many called hypocritical displays of Indigenous dancing and gift giving.
She said the apostolic visit is veiled in hypocrisy. “It may be meaningful for some, many may find his visit traumatizing,” she said. “Church officials have taken decades to acknowledge any part of the dark chapters in Canadian history. Because Pope Francis is making a widely publicized visit, we can’t help but ask if a child anywhere on earth is safer now that a pope has landed back at the crime scene? No.
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