Pope Francis says he felt the pain of Indigenous Peoples during trip to Canada – SooToday.com
Pope Francis says he felt the pain of Indigenous Peoples during his trip to Canada but also left with a sense of hope.
The six-day journey saw Francis meet with Indigenous people and residential school survivors during stops in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut last week.
“In these meetings, especially the last one, I had to feel the blows of the pain of those people, what they had lost … the elderly who had (lost) their children and did not know what had become of them, due to this policy of assimilation,” Francis said Wednesday during a general audience in Vatican City.
“It was a very painful moment, but one we must face up to. We must face up to our errors, our sins.”
