AP PHOTOS: Pope makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada
Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering lengthy overdue apologies to the country's Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses with every one other accompanied by ethnic demolition they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools.
The pontiff's penitential pilgrimage – Alberta to Quebec with every one other accompanied by stopping inside far-north Nunavut earlier to flying spine to Rome on Saturday -- stirred a mix of emotions for educational organization survivors. Some welcomed the Holy Father's apology for the "evil" of house of God personnel with every one other accompanied by "catastrophic effect" of the educational organization system. Still others speak a lengthy way additional needs to exist done to correct past wrongs with every one other accompanied by pursue justice.
One First Nations leader flat gifted Francis accompanied by a headdress, briefly placing the revered regalia on the pope's head, eliciting cheers from a crowd that had fair heard him repent at the location of a former residential school. But some Indigenous peoples found the signal incongruous accompanied by the transgressions Francis said he was sad for inside their homeland.
More than 150,000 Native children inside Canada were forced to attend government-funded Christian schools from the 19th century until the 1970s. They were isolated from their homes with every one other accompanied by the arts accompanied by the aim of Christianizing with every one other accompanied by assimilating them into mainstream society, which foregoing Canadian governments considered superior. Abuse was rampant.
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This week, the Canadian management made understandable the pontiff's apology did not go a lengthy way sufficient with every one other accompanied by the First Nations chairperson of Canada's Truth with every one other accompanied by Reconciliation Commission called on Francis to lay clasp of duty for the filled part of the house of God inside the educational organization system.
Just earlier to the pope celebrated Mass on Thursday, protesters unfurled a banner at the alter demanding that the papal decrees underpinning the inappropriately namedsupposed "Doctrine of Discovery" exist rescinded. The doctrine with every one other accompanied by other theories were used to legitimize the colonial-era seizure of Native lands with every one other accompanied by form the foundation of some possessions rules and regulations today.
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