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Part 1:<I thought, what made him change his mind?
What made him make that apology? Why did it take so long?> Flora
says.>....
Part
2:
<Pope calls treatment of Indigenous in
Canada schools 'genocide'....>
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Part 3: <[The apology] fell short,....>
and
Francis has apologized personally and on behalf of <many>
individual bad actors, but not for the Church as a whole.
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Part 4: <Apologies for the role that the
Roman Catholic Church, as an institution, played in the
mistreatment on the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical and
sexual abuse that Indigenous children suffered in residential
schools run by the church,not enough> Trudeau said....
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Part 5: <...the pope said the Church
was asking <burning questions... on its difficult and demanding
journey of healing and reconciliation.>... |
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Part 6: <You never invite a wolf into your
den,> Chantalle said frankly, during a telephone interview with
Al Jazeera days before the pope’s arrival. <Like, you don't
bring somebody here that hasn't fully understood what has gone
on for all these years. I don't accept that he's coming to my
home. It’s not something I agree with.> .... |
Part 7: <Part of me is
rejoiced, part of me is sad, part of me is numb. But I'm glad I
lived long enough to have witnessed this apology,> Korkmaz said
during a news conference. <But like I said, I want more because
50 years is too long to wait for an apology.>... |
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Part 8: RoseAnne
Archibald, national chief for the Assembly of First Nations, who
also greeted the pope, criticised the <unilateral> organisation
of the trip and the <archaic> nature of the church, which has no
women in leadership positions. <We don't feel that it has been
about survivors>.... |
Part 9: Eastern Gate Windspeaking Woman, a
survivor who had travelled more than 500km (311 miles) from New
Brunswick, told me she felt like a <Christmas ornament> and was
not sure she belonged there. <It's not about the survivors,> she
said. <I felt we were pushed aside, like we didn't matter.
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31 2022)
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one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
Al Jazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
25 July 2022
<<Pope apologises for 'evil' of Canada's residential schools
On Canada visit, Pope Francis asks Indigenous people for forgiveness for
church members' role in 'catastrophic' system.
Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that
may be upsetting.
Canada's Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is
available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. 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. After a
visit on Monday to the former site of Ermineskin Indian Residential
School in Maskwacis, in the western province of Alberta, the pope said
he travelled to Canada <to tell you in person of my sorrow [and] to
implore God's forgiveness, healing and reconciliation>. <I am here
because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of
again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply
sorry,> Pope Francis said during a ceremony attended by Indigenous
leaders, residential school survivors, elders and others. <What our
Christian faith tells us is that this was a disastrous error
incompatible with the gospel of Jesus Christ,> he said, describing the
effects of residential schools as <catastrophic>. <I humbly beg
forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the
Indigenous peoples.> The pope's six-day visit to Canada this week comes
after hundreds of unmarked graves were recently uncovered at several
former residential school sites, spurring renewed calls for
accountability from the government and the Catholic Church, in
particular. Ermineskin, which operated from 1895 to 1975 and was run by
the Catholic Church, was one of Canada's largest residential schools.
The government-funded and church-run institutions aimed to forcibly
assimilate Indigenous children into mainstream European culture.
More than 150,000 First Nation, Metis and Inuit children were separated
from their families and forced into residential schools between the late
1800s and 1990s. They were subjected to widespread physical,
psychological and sexual abuse and banned from speaking Indigenous
languages, and thousands of children are believed to have died while in
attendance.
The system amounted to <cultural genocide>, a federal commission of
inquiry, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), said
in 2015.
<You have travelled a long way to be with us on our land and to walk
with us on the path of reconciliation,> Dr Wilton Littlechild, a
survivor of Ermineskin Residential School who has long advocated for a
papal apology, told Pope Francis at the start of Monday's ceremony in
Maskwacis. <For this, we honour you and extend to you our most heartfelt
welcome.> For decades, Indigenous survivors called on the pope to
apologise for the church's role in the abuses that took place at
residential schools, and an apology was one of the TRC's 94 Calls to
Action seven years ago (PDF). Speaking to an Indigenous delegation that
travelled to Rome earlier this year, Pope Francis in April apologised
for the <deplorable conduct> of members of the Catholic Church at the
institutions. But some community leaders said the pope needed to deliver
his apology on Indigenous lands.
Evelyn Korkmaz, a survivor of St Anne's residential school in Ontario, a
notorious institution where Indigenous children were shocked in an
electric chair, said she felt mixed emotions on Monday.
<Part of me is rejoiced, part of me is sad, part of me is numb. But I'm
glad I lived long enough to have witnessed this apology,> Korkmaz said
during a news conference. <But like I said, I want more because 50 years
is too long to wait for an apology.>
Pope Francis's visit and apology have drawn diverse reactions from
Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors, with some welcoming
this as an important step on the path to healing, and others saying it
is too little, too late. Some also argue that the Catholic Church needs
to do much more to atone for its role in residential schools, including
releasing all the documents related to the institutions, providing full
reparations to survivors and communities, and helping bring the
perpetrators of abuse to justice. <Understanding that survivors will
each have their own vision of reconciliation, for many, anything less
than an apology that includes an unqualified admission of the crimes
committed, a full acceptance of responsibility, and a commitment to end
the abuse and make full reparations will be just another empty apology
and continuing injustice for First Nations, Inuit and Metis,> Pamela
Palmater, professor and chair of Indigenous governance at Toronto
Metropolitan University, wrote in the Toronto Star newspaper on Sunday.
<I am a survivor myself. It is not easy for someone like myself to
accept an apology when it's not specific enough,> Byron Joseph, chair of
the board of directors of the Indian Residential School Survivors
Society, also said in a statement this month. <We need action and we
need continued support for ongoing healing.>
During Monday's event, Pope Francis recognised that his apology was only
a first step. He said that to prevent such abuses from taking place
again, <a serious investigation into the facts of what took place> must
be conducted. The pope did not go into further detail about what such a
probe would entail.>>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/25/pope-apologises-for-evil-of-canada-residential-schools
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