the policies of cultural assimilation
"cultural genocide".
malnutrition , the Truth
( Francis makes good on a promise to apologize )
"pilgrimage of penance"
encounters with native people
Francis makes good on a promise
to apologize
for the Church's role
in the state-sanctioned schools,
which sought to erase indigenous cultures.
"Unfortunately in Canada many Christians,
including some members of religious orders,
contributed to the policies of cultural assimilation
that in the past gravely damaged native populations
in various ways,"
Francis said in St. Peter's Square.
children taken subjected to abuse, rape
malnutrition the Truth
"cultural genocide".
schools ...
The 85-year-old Pope
will visit Edmonton, Maskwacis,
Lac Ste. Anne, Quebec, and Iqaluit
in Canada's Arctic territory. He is scheduled to deliver
nine homilies and addresses and say two masses.
"Pope seeks prayers for his 'penitential'
Canadian pilgrimage
WSOC-TV Charlotte"
penance
1 : an act of self-abasement, mortification
or devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin
2 : a sacramental rite that is practiced in Roman,
Eastern, and some Anglican churches
and that consists of private confession, absolution,
and a penance directed
by the confessor
3 : something (such as a hardship or penalty)
resembling an act of penance
(as in compensating for an offense)
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