Papal visit: Indigenous people look for healing, action – CTV News
July 20, 2022
TORONTO – When Pope Francis travels to Canada, indigenous leaders and residential school survivors say, they are hoping for more than an apology: They want action.
Francis, who will be the first pope in nearly 20 years to visit Canada, said on Sunday he was making a “pilgrimage of penance” to help heal the wrongs done to indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools linked to deaths of thousands of children.
More than 150,000 children were taken from their homes and many were subjected to abuse, rape and malnutrition in what Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide.”
