After a 15-minute meeting with Simon, Francis met for about 25 minutes with Trudeau, who on Sunday had been in charge of receiving him upon his arrival in Canada and with whom he also met on Monday in Maskwacis during the pope’s apology to the indigenous for the role of some Christians in the boarding schools deployed throughout the country between 1883 and 1996 about which there are complaints of abuses of all kinds.
Francis, Trudeau noted in a statement, “recognized the abuses experienced in residential schools that resulted in cultural destruction, loss of life, and ongoing trauma experienced by indigenous peoples in all regions of this country.”
After the meetings, the pope will give a speech to the country’s political, social and indigenous authorities.
apologies
Pope Francis traveled to Canada to apologize on behalf of the Church to indigenous peoples for the abuses committed against them for decades in Catholic institutions.
“I apologize for the way in which many members of the Church and religious communities cooperated, also through indifference, in these projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation”the 85-year-old pope said as he read a message in front of a crowd.
The apology was greeted with applause by a crowd of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples gathered in Maskwacis, in western Alberta, where indigenous children were taken from their families and subjected to what is considered a “culture genocide”.
“The policies of assimilation and disengagement, which also included the residential school system, were disastrous for the people of these lands,” he acknowledged.
Source: Ambito
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