A spokesperson for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said the Pope had been ‘deeply moved’ by the testimony and wisdom shared by the delegations that travelled to Rome.
Despite the emotional weight of the Pope’s long-awaited apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential-school system, the gesture is expected to have little legal impact.
“That is the feeling that I have because there is a possibility,” Antoine said standing just beyond St. Peter’s Square.“With the Catholic Church, we’re so desperate for any acknowledgment or accountability we all scrambled to acknowledge this,” said Rob Talach, a London, Ont.-based lawyer who has filed hundreds of lawsuits against the church.In some ways, the legal question here is an old one.
Experts pointed out the apology is carefully worded, from a legal perspective. Talach notes it apologizes for the acts of certain Catholics rather than the conduct of the Church as a whole. In an email Friday, a spokesperson for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said that the Pope had been “deeply moved” by the testimony and wisdom shared by the delegations that travelled to Rome.
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