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Pope Francis, Slowed by Aging, Finds Lessons in Frailty
LAC STE. ANNE, Alberta — When Pope Francis landed in Canada this week, he lumbered out of a car on the tarmac, hobbled with difficulty to an awaiting wheelchair and froze in place as cameras shot at close range the spectacle of an aide adjusting the pontiff’s footrests. On a makeshift stage outside an Indigenous…
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Pope Francis is expected to deliver an apology long demanded by Canada’s Indigenous communities.
OTTAWA — Pope Francis, on his first full day in Canada on Monday, is expected to apologize to Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the country’s notorious residential school system, where thousands of Indigenous children died, and countless others were sexually and physically abused. The pope’s six-day visit comes after years of…
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Pope Apologizes in Canada for Schools That Abused Indigenous Children
MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis offered a sweeping apology directly to Indigenous people on their land in Canada on Monday, fulfilling a critical demand of many of the survivors of church-run residential schools that became gruesome centers of abuse, forced assimilation, cultural devastation and death for over a century. “I humbly beg forgiveness for the…
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What Is the Pope Apologizing For on His Visit to Canada
“What residential school was, and still is, is a nightmare.” For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their homes and sent to residential schools to forcibly assimilate them into white society. And thousands were never seen again. Now, more than 20 years after the last school shut down, searches for…
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Pope Francis Will Travel to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community
OTTAWA — Pope Francis is traveling to Canada this week to apologize to Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the country’s notorious residential school system, where thousands of Indigenous children died, and countless others were sexually and physically abused. The visit comes after years of pleas from Indigenous leaders and leading politicians…
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Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Close Ally of Pope Francis, Dies at 87
He is survived by his sisters, Irene Maria, Lurdes, Dulce, Alaíde and Marlene, and his brothers, Inacio and Artêmio. Auri Hummes entered religious training at 9, became a Franciscan friar at 22 and was ordained a priest just days before his 24th birthday, taking Cláudio as his religious name. He went to Rome to study…
