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Pope Francis apologize to the natives You have on the role Catholic church in schools where indigenous children have been abused and abused. The Pope called their forced cultural assimilation a “despicable crime” and a “catastrophic mistake”.
Reported from the news agency ReutersTuesday (26/7/2022), speaking near the site of two former schools in Maskwacis, Alberta, Pope Francis apologized for Christian support for the “colonial mentality” of the time and called for a “serious” investigation into the schools to help recovery of survivors and their descendants.
“With shame and without hesitation, I humbly ask for forgiveness for the crimes committed by so many Christians against indigenous peoples,” he said. Pope Franciswho comes and goes in a wheelchair because of a fractured knee.
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The speech to the First Nations, Metis and Inuit indigenous peoples on Monday (25/7) local time was the first apology on the ground. You have by the Pope, as part of a tour to heal the deep wounds that surfaced after the discovery of unmarked graves in residential schools last year.
The 85-year-old pope had promised such a tour to a native delegation that visited him earlier this year at the Vatican, where he made an initial apology.
Indigenous leaders wearing eagle-feather headdresses welcome the pope as a fellow tribal chief and greet him with song, drumming, dance and war songs.
“I am here because the first step of my pilgrimage among you is to apologize again, to say once again that I am very sorry,” he said. Pope Francis.
“Sorry for the ways in which, unfortunately, many Christians support the colonial mentality of forces that oppress indigenous peoples. I apologize,” he said. “In the face of this grievous crime, the Church kneels before God and asks His forgiveness for the sins of her children,” the Pope added.
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