After past apologies to Irish children and Indigenous peoples in South America for suffering at the hands of the Catholic Church, some are hopeful that Pope Francis may offer an official apology to survivors of Canada’s residential schools.
Indigenous delegates travelled from Canada to Rome this week to meet with leaders of the Catholic Church, and First Nation delegates will meet with the Pope on Thursday to invite him to the site of a former residential school in B.C., and toA papal apology for the church's role in facilitating Canada's residential schools was one of the 94 recommendations outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission .
The TRC referenced this apology in its recommendation that a similar apology be offered by the pope to residential school survivors. The apology came after Pope Francis' predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, defended the colonization of South America in a previous visit to the continent. But some say Pope Francis’ previous apology to other Indigenous peoples makes them confident he will do so again.
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