A plane carrying Pope Francis left Edmonton on Wednesday morning heading to Quebec City to begin the next leg of what he has described as his “penitential” journey in Canada. The pontiff is scheduled to have separate meetings with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Citadelle of Québec, then give […]
Pope Francis spoke about the importance of grandparents and the elderly as thousands gathered for a public mass at Edmonton’s football stadium Tuesday, a day after the pontiff apologized for abuses committed at Catholic-run residential schools. Francis prayed for “a future in which the history of violence and marginalization suffered by our Indigenous brothers and […]
Thousands of Indigenous people converged Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Francis was scheduled to arrive in mid-morning at the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School, now largely torn down. […]
The FSIN says the Pope and the Catholic Church needs to apologize to Indian Residential School Survivors. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says the Catholic Church also needs to release all of its records relating to First Nations children at residential schools across Canada. At a news conference Friday morning in Saskatoon FSIN Vice […]
