Francis in Rome did not “explain how Catholic-run residential schools negatively affected generations of indigenous people through spiritual, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, nor did he explain any formal plans for how the Catholic Church would Will try to follow the path of reconciliation.” Tiffany Dion Prete said.
Torn from their families, 150,000 children went through 139 boarding schools until 1996, when the Gordon Residential School in Punicchi closed. Children could not speak their language and were forced to learn polite trade in unhygienic conditions which led to many deaths from diseases like tuberculosis.
Pope Francis’ visit to CanadaFrom 24 to 29 July, there will be an opportunity for the Church to apologize for past mistakes, this time after torture and abuse during the processes of forced assimilation by the country’s indigenous people in Catholic boarding schools. 19th century and XX.
“All this has aroused my anger and shame”, Francis said that when he met with Vatican representatives of Canada’s indigenous peoples last May, when he wanted to “apologize” to God for “the reprehensible behavior of the men of the Church”.
Francis then announced that he would visit Canada in what he called “a repentance trip”, as the natives requested the Pope personally to apologize in areas that had been humiliated and abused for decades: a cultural massacre As prescribed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Although indigenous representatives who visited the Vatican were impressed by Francis’ words, the indigenous population in general expects much more than a phrase of forgiveness on this visit.
Pope must “apologise”
Speaking to Canadian media, Phil Fontaine, The former national head of the Assembly of the First Nations said Francis “should extend his apology for what happened at the boarding schools when he visits Canada next week” and that the apology is “not the end of the story, only the beginning.”
“We still have a lot of work to do to fix the past and achieve true reconciliation. We have to forgive ourselves. otherwise the story never endsFontaine said.
Francis in Rome did not “explain how Catholic-run residential schools negatively affected generations of indigenous people through spiritual, emotional, physical and sexual abuse, nor did he explain any formal plans for how the Catholic Church would Will try to follow the path of reconciliation.” Tiffany Dion Prete from the University of Lethbridge said in the informational portal The Conversation,
“There are many of us who hope The Pope’s visit may bring about a new and more sincere apology.”Added this member of Kenai, who is part of the Blackfoot Confederation, mentioning, among others, the need to address the issue of criminal investigations into those in charge of residential schools for the church, citing the unnamed bodies of children buried. The discovery and compensation of indigenous peoples.
In a recent interview with the Univision Channel, the pontiff assured that any speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” by apologizing.
and recognized The “brutal way” in which the Catholic Church cooperated with the Canadian government in “colonization” and in “the uprooting of Indigenous children from their families, cultures and spirituality”.
The system of boarding schools for boys and girls of the native peoples, Inuit, Métis and First Nations, was introduced in 1883 to help Aboriginal residents assimilate the society’s uses and customs.
Torn from their families, 150,000 children went through 139 boarding schools until 1996, when the Gordon Residential School in Punicchi closed. Children could not speak their language and were forced to learn polite trade in unhygienic conditions which led to many deaths from diseases like tuberculosis.
Last year there was a shocking discovery of the remains of nearly two hundred children, students of Kamloops Indian Residential School in the province of British Columbia. More than 3,000 are believed to have been buried unidentified in mass graves, many of them yet to be discovered.
Forgiveness of Pops and Swadeshi
The same process was experienced in Latin America when the last pontiff apologized to the indigenous people during his travels.
Santo in 1992 John Paul II during his visit to the Dominican Republic “recognized the abuses committed by the lack of love of those who did not know how to look in the indigenous people and the sons of God the Father” and asked them to “forgive all who cause of pain and suffering for his ancestors during these five hundred years”
Benedict XVI acknowledged on his return from his trip to Brazil that “the memory of a glorious past cannot overshadow the shadows that came with the evangelistic work of the Latin American continent”.
You In Bolivia, 2015, Francis Affirmed: “Many more serious sins have been committed against the Native American people in the name of God” and apologized for it, as in 2016 in San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mexico), where they also abused the indigenous population apologized for.
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