‘I ask for forgiveness’: Pope apologizes for ‘deplorable evil’ in Canadian indigenous schools
“Faced with this deplorable evil, the church kneels before God and implores his forgiveness for the sins of her children.” Between 1881 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and taken to residential centers. Many children were starved, beaten and sexually abused in a system Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission …