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Pope Francis delivers his speech as he meets the indigenous communities, including First Na-
tions, Metis and Inuit, at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmon-
ton, Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022.
Associated Press
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Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’

school abuses in Canada Department of

MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) residential school south of so many Christians against meteorology Aruba
— Pope Francis issued a Edmonton, Alberta, the first the Indigenous peoples,” issues warning regarding
historic apology Monday event of Francis’ weeklong Francis said near the site of
for the Catholic Church’s “penitential pilgrimage” to the former Ermineskin Indi- upcoming heat
cooperation with Cana- Canada. an Residential School, now
da’s “catastrophic” policy The morning after he ar- largely torn down.
of Indigenous residential rived in the country, Fran- His words went beyond his
schools, saying the forced cis traveled to the lands of earlier apology for the “de-
assimilation of Native peo- four Cree nations to pray plorable” acts of mission-
ples into Christian society at a cemetery. Four chiefs aries and instead took re-
destroyed their cultures, then escorted the pontiff in sponsibility for the church’s
severed families and mar- his wheelchair to powwow institutional cooperation
ginalized generations in ceremonial grounds where with the “catastrophic”
ways still being felt today. he delivered the long- assimilation policy, which
“I am deeply sorry,” Fran- sought apology and was Canada’s Truth and Rec-
cis said, to applause from given a feathered head- onciliation Commission said
school survivors and Indig- dress. amounted to a “cultural
enous community mem- “I humbly beg forgiveness genocide.” page 7
bers gathered at a former for the evil committed by Continued on next page