The 85-year-old pope is making the week-long apology tour of Canada to fulfill a promise he made to Indigenous delegations that visited him this year at the Vatican, where he made the initial apology.
Thousands of Indigenous persons are expected to converge Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural…
Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools. The pontiff says the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed
Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church’s efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.
Pope Francis apologized to survivors of indigenous residential schools in Canada on Monday, beginning a long-awaited reconciliation process after years of requests to the Catholic Church to acknowledge the harm done.
A day after arriving in Canada, Pope Francis is scheduled to go to the small Alberta prairie town of Maskwacis to deliver a historic apology. He'll apologize for abuses and
A day after arriving in Canada, Pope Francis is scheduled to go to the small Alberta prairie town of Maskwacis to deliver a historic apology. He’ll apologize for abuses and cultural repression of Indigenous children at Catholic-run residential schools across Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries.
On his first full day in Canada, Pope Francis is expected to offer an apology to Indigenous residential school survivors for an often-brutal system run in part by the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis says the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.
Pope Francis apologized to indigenous people of Canada for abuses and what he called 'forced assimiliation' conducted by residential schools over the course of many years.
CNN's Paula Newton speaks with survivors who suffered decades of physical, sexual, and mental abuse in Canadian residential schools with ties to the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis on Monday made good on a promise to apologize to Canada's native people on their home land for the Church's role in schools where indigenous children were abused, branding forced cultural…
During a landmark visit to Canada, the head of the Catholic Church apologized to Indigenous survivors for the "cultural destruction" at Church-run residential schools.
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.
The Roman Catholic leader is expected to apologize for the church’s role in running residential schools where Indigenous children were sexually and physically abused and where many died.
"I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples," Pope Francis said in a speech to Canada's Native people.
Francis arrived Sunday in Edmonton, where he was greeted by representatives of Canada’s three main Indigenous groups along with political and church dignitaries.
