Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St Peter’s Square after Indigenous delegates attended an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on April 1, 2022. Photo: CNS Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness. In an early July interview, he acknowledged the “cruel way” the Catholic Church collaborated with the Canadian government in “colonisation” by uprooting Indigenous children from their families, cultures and spiritualities and forcing them to attend…
