Reconciliation visit:
The final stop for Pope Francis in Canada was a visit to Iqaluit. The Globe and Mail reports:
Saskatchewan: On Friday, [Pope Francis] met with several school survivors In Iqaluit before an outdoor performance that included traditional throat singing and drum dancing.His speech before hundreds began with another apology for the “evil perpetuated” on Indigenous people by church members. Speaking in his native Spanish, Francis’s speech was translated into English and Inuktitut.He told them he was sorry in Inuktitut, a meaningful gesture to many in the audience. “I thank you for having had the courage to tell your stories and to share your great suffering that I could not imagine,” he said in Spanish.“This only renewed in me the indignation and shame that I have felt for months.”The pontiff’s tour has fostered healing for some school survivors and anger in others....Early on Friday, before his flight to Iqaluit, Pope Francis held a private meeting with an Indigenous delegation at the residence of Quebec Archbishop, Cardinal Gérald Lacroix. After the meeting, Ghislain Picard, Assembly of First Nations regional chief for Quebec/Labrador, said it will be up to each person to decide if the Pope’s trip met their expectations. “It’s really up to them to take the measure of all this, whether it’s going to provide that kind of way for their healing,”Mr. Picard said after the meeting. “It’s going to take time.”
The Pope still has not committed to saying the words that critics of his apology are demanding to hear — that it was the Catholic Church as an institution that was responsible for the residential school abuses and that those included physical, psychological and sexual abuses.
— Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 29, 2022
For some reason that nobody has yet explained, Saskatchewan has asked the feds for the authority to determine which immigrants will be allowed to settle here, and also they want the feds to give us all the money.
— Robbert Glennjamin (@BobbGlenn) July 28, 2022It ain't gonna happen, of course, but maybe the Sask Party thinks they can gin up another grievance against the Trudeau Liberals?
