'I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples,' Francis said near the site of a residential school, where radar is used to locate the unmarked graves of students who died while attending the school.
Pope Francis delivers remarks as he meets Indigenous communities — including First Nations, Metis and Inuit — at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, on Monday.Years after a Canadian-government-funded commission issued findings detailing a history of physical and sexual abuse of Indigenous children in the country's Catholic-run residential schools, Pope Francis on Monday issued an apology on Canadian soil.
A member of the Indigenous community helps display the memorial banner, which was the first national, public record of the names of the children who did not return home from the residential schools across Canada. "When you sing the song [it should be] coming from your heart," says St. Pierre, who was present in Maskwacis when Francis spoke. Francis' statement was"read off a script," he says.
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