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Many Indigenous People still digesting the Pope's visit

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 7:21 AM

Many Indigenous People still digesting the visit and apologies last week fromPope Francis during his trip to Canada.

A former regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Manitoba say she's pleased the pope acknowledged abuses that happened in residential schools amounted to genocide. But Ken Young says it would have been better if Francis had made the acknowledgment while he was in Canada last week. Pope Francis apologized multiple times during his trip for abuses inflicted on children at Catholic-run residential schools, but didn't use the word``genocide'' until he was asked by reporters on his plane back to Rome if he accepted that members of the church participated in genocide. Young, who is also a member of the National Indian Residential School Circle of Survivors, says he believes Francis was free to express his own views when he was at the end of the Canadian visit, say

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