Pope Francis, while repeatedly denouncing colonialism during his visit to Canada, included praise for some of the earliest missionaries to the country
QUEBEC—Pope Francis repeatedly denounced colonialism during his visit to Canada this week as hein managing residential schools for indigenous children that stripped away their own cultural practices and beliefs.
Yet among the pope’s expressions of sorrow and requests for forgiveness, he included praise for some of the earliest missionaries to Canada, proposing them as models of cultural inclusivity in the church then and today.
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