Pope Francis met with 22 First Nations survivors of Indian Residential Schools from Eastern Canada in the residence of the Archbishop of Quebec. <\/p>\n
In his message to the survivors, the Pope reiterated the penitential nature of his journey and expressed his hope for the Church and Indigenous communities to reconcile despite their strained past.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS I do this so that progress may be made in the search for truth, so that the processes of healing and reconciliation may continue.<\/em><\/p>\n Pope Francis then referenced three women to whom he entrusted the reconciliation process: St. Anne, the mother of Mary, Our Lady herself, and Saint Kateri Tekawitha, the 17th century Indigenous saint who died during a smallpox epidemic in Quebec. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS May they bless the journey we now share, and intercede for us and for this great work of healing and reconciliation that is so pleasing to God.<\/em><\/p>\n The Pope then met privately with the delegates to close the Quebec portion of his trip to Canada, where about 10% of the country's 1.8 million Indigenous population lives.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 29, 2022. The Pope reiterated the penitential nature of his journey and expressed his hope for the Church and Indigenous communities to reconcile despite their difficult past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eaojUvXidNs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b12incontroindigeniquebeqeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b12incontroindigeniquebeqint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>I have come in a spirit of penance, to express our heartfelt pain as a Church at the wrong inflicted on you by not a few Catholics who supported oppressive and unjust policies in your regard.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Her sanctity of life was also made possible by certain noble and virtuous traits inherited from her community and the indigenous environment in which she grew up.<\/em><\/p>\n