Francisco will travel to Canada tomorrow. The Pope will begin a 6-day tour of Canada to show his “anger and shame” to indigenous peoples for the mistreatment of residential schools run by Christian institutions between the late 19th and early 90s.
Pope Francis will begin a six-day tour of Canada this Sunday in which he will show his “outrage and shame” to local Indigenous peoples for the mistreatment of residential schools for young people run by Christian institutions amid the end. In the 19th century and 1990s, and despite the fact that he continues with the recovery of his right knee, he decided to keep.
Francis will depart Rome (4 in Argentina) this Sunday in an Ita Airways Airbus A330, his 37th visit as Pope outside Italy, with a 19,246 km journey to visit Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit will do. that the pontiff himself described as a “pilgrimage of penance”.
During the six days of the visit, which would have Telam with him as the only South American media outlet, Jorge Bergoglio would deliver nine speeches, all in Spanish, most of them focused on the Church’s reconciliation with Canadian indigenous peoples. After all kinds of abuses were committed in the country’s 139 boarding schools, of which about 40 were managed by Christian institutions including Catholic associations.
“The visit focused on meetings with indigenous peoples,” papal spokesman Matteo Bruni said while presenting the trip to the press this week, and highlighted the “anger and shame” that the Pope offered for what happened in the papal centers. Will. Which the Canadian state sought to assimilate to the native population.