Kieser, Doris M.Journal of Moral Theology
Last month, Francis made a historic apology for abuses in Canada’s church-run residential schools and expressed “sorrow and shame” for the lack of respect for Indigenous identities, culture and spiritual values. He said then that he wanted to go to Canada to deliver the apology personally...
Thousands of Indigenous people converged Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada. Francis was scheduled to arrive in mid-morning at the...
Pope Francis has apologised to Indigenous people in Canada for the “evil” of residential schools, the church-run, forced-assimilation institutions that First Nation, Inuit and Metis children were forced to attend for decades...
expressed a new policy. The government wanted to force indigenous people to end their own culture. The government wanted to force the indigenous people to become part of the majority culture. Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott was the head of Canada’s Indian Affairs program from 1913 to 1932. He ...
Pope Francis issues long awaited apology to the Indigenous peoples of Canada Following a week of separate talks with 3 delegations of Indigenous people – the First Nations, Inuit and Metis – Pope Francis apologized on April 1 for the conduct of some members of the Roman Catholic Church...
One suspect is dead and a second is still on the run following a string of stabbings that killed at least 11 people across Canada's Saskatchewan province, police said. Jul 25, 2022, 2:54 PM Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous community in Canada over church's role in boarding school ...
were held by the so-called “Uyghur Tribunal” set up by the West to assess China’s abuse of human rights and trace evidence of committing “genocide” in Xinjiang, raising the same accusations of crimes that not China, but themselves had been proven committed to the Indigenous people. ...
That year Harper also issued a formal apology for the treatment of indigenous peoples in residential schools. These schools, which opened in the 1870s, were designed to efface the cultural identity of indigenous children and forcibly assimilate them into broader Canadian society. 2008 Canadian ...
On July 25, 2022, Pope Francis visited Canada to issue a historic apology for the Catholic Church’s participation in what he called the Canadian government’s “catastrophic” system of Indigenous residential schools. Pope Francis wears a traditional headdress that was gifted to him by indigenous...