Posted on 07/15/2018 6:32:53 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Vatican’s ambassador to Canada says Pope Francis is opening the door to an apology to the country’s Indigenous people for the abuse of children at Catholic-run Indian residential schools.
A papal apology was one of the calls to action issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which spent years investigating the schools. And Canada’s Parliament has voted to ask Francis to visit this country and make the requested statement of regret.
At a private gathering for foreign dignitaries and Canadian politicians held late last month at his residence in Ottawa, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, the Papal Nuncio, said the request has prompted a “lively discussion” in civil society and the Catholic community.
“Through the media, opinions have circulated giving the impression that Pope Francis would not be available to listen to the request made by the Indigenous peoples” for an apology, Archbishop Bonazzi said in a speech to his guests, which was shared this week with The Globe and Mail.
“I can assure you that Pope Francis is not against a gesture of reconciliation,” he said, “and he is willing to seek together ways that can foster the desired process of healing and reconciliation with and among the Indigenous peoples in this country.”
The Archbishop went on to say that the Catholic Church is committed to studying ways to make meaningful progress toward reconciliation and that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has sponsored “listening sessions” with representatives of Indigenous communities. “Such listening sessions show a way forward and are being encouraged in every diocese and region in the country,” Archbishop Bonazzi said.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Enough with the apologies. Unless the Church purges all homosexuals from the clergy, these crimes will continue. At its core homosexuality is the molestation and imprinting of young boys.
When does the left apologize for the depredations of history. You know, the most violent and deadly of history. Religions apologize, America apoligizes, Republicans apologize...Say! I have an idea! Let’s grab the Left by the back of its rotten, lying neck and smash it’s collective face into the ground until it apologizes for the butchery and slaughter it is in fact guilty of!
Boarding School Bump
How about an apology to all the Alaska Natives whose lives were ruined as catholic priests raped their way across Alaska.
Cute that the articles doesn’t say what the Catholics need to apologize for...But the picture at the end tells us anyway...
The Catholic Church buggered all the little boys from one end of Canada to the other...And they’re likely still doing it...
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