Pope: Canadian residential schools were cultural 'genocide'
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Pope Francis says the attempt to eliminate Indigenous culture in Canada through its residential school system amounted to a cultural “genocide.” Speaking to reporters while en route home from Canada
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Pope: Canadian residential schools were cultural 'genocide'
(RNS) — The penitential pilgrimage of Pope Francis should be an example to all church leaders who need to apologize to victims of church leaders and other Christians.
On a trip to Canada, Pope Francis has asked indigenous residential school survivors for forgiveness for the serious abuse and erasure of identity and culture that they endured. But is an apology enough?
Pope Francis's apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s abusive residential schools was a full-throated denunciation of a decadeslong policy of forced assimilation that aimed to strip Indigenous children
Francis, responding to longtime pleas from Indigenous people, begged forgiveness for schools where children were forced to assimilate, many were sexually or physically abused and some died.
The pontiff says the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalized generations.
Pope Francis condemned Canada’s residential school system as “a deplorable evil” and asked forgiveness of the Indigenous Peoples for Christians participation in it.
Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations.
By Jack Guy, CNN Pope Francis has spoken of his “sorrow, indignation and shame” over the Catholic Church’s role in the abuse of Canadian Indigenous children in residential schools, as he kicked off a weeklong “penitential pilgrimage” to the country.
QUEBEC CITY (AP) -- The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country's church-run
Canada said an apology from Pope Francis on the abuses of Indigenous children in church-run schools is not enough, calling on the church to acknowledge its central role.
The government's criticisms echo those of survivors and concern Francis' omission of any reference to the sexual abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the schools, as well as his refusal to name the Catholic Church as an institution bearing any responsibility.
The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation…
Canadian government officials are pushing for more action from Pope Francis after he apologized for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools for indigenous people.
More than 150,000 Native children in Canada were taken from their homes and placed in church-run schools in an effort to isolate them from the influence of their families and culture.
During a visit to Alberta, Canada, Pope Francis said he was 'deeply sorry' for more than a century of abuses suffered by Indigenous populations at the hands of the Catholic Church
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, about the pope's apology to Indigenous peoples for Canada's residential schools.
Three weeks before the pope visited Canada to apologize for the church’s involvement in indigenous residential schools, Christina Dawson’s church in Vancouver, British Columbia, burned down. ...
Pope Francis says the attempt to eliminate Indigenous culture in Canada through its residential school system amounted to a cultural “genocide.” Speaking to reporters while en route home from Canada
Comments come after a six-day trip where he apologized to survivors of abuse at Catholic-run schools, who were cut off from families, language and culture
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