Pope Francis visits with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Mary Simon, governor
general, after a welcoming ceremony at Edmonton International Airport July 24. MASKWACIS, Alberta – the first step of Pope Francis’ “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada involved him returning two pairs of children’s moccasins. The little shoes were not among the Indigenous artifacts held in the Vatican Museums, but rather reminders that Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier of the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan had left with Pope Francis…
