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Hearing pain of Canada school survivors felt like slaps, pope says

Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada's residential school system "like slaps" and that the Catholic Church has to face up to its responsibility for institutions that abused children and tried to erase indigenous cultures.

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Pope Francis's visit to Canada was full of tensions — both from what was said and what wasn’t

Reactions to Pope Francis’s apology in Canada for harm perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church on children at Indian Residential Schools were far from unanimous.

The Conversation

Secular group slams Lanarkshire council over religious representative search

The National Secular Society says the role is outdated and 'runs counter to principles of equality'.

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Families attend memorial service 50 years on from Claudy bombings

Three car bombs detonated in the village on July 31, 1972, killing nine people.

The Independent UK

Service to mark 50 years since Claudy massacre

The attack in the Co Londonderry village was blamed on the Provisional IRA, although the group never claimed responsibility.

The Independent UK

Holy Smokes! Meet The Nuns Who Grow Weed

Article by Marian Venini, originally published on El Planteo.

Benzinga

AP PHOTOS: Pope makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada

Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country’s Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools.

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The pope visited Nunavut for the final apology of his Canadian tour

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the "evil" of Canada's residential schools, wrapping up his week-long "penitential pilgrimage" to Canada.

WEKU

Pope Francis apologises again as Canada visit wraps up in Nunavut

Pope’s six-day tour of Canada is ending in northern territory of Nunavut, where he met residential school survivors.

Al Jazeera

Pope Francis says he may need to retire – here's what it could mean for the future of the papacy

Pope Francis has said his recent trip to Canada showed he may one day need to retire if his health fails him. Although he was recently forced to deny rumours that he was about to step down, the 85-year-old Catholic leader has previously left open the possibility of some day…

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Claudy bomb families remember day 'community was torn apart' 50 years ago

"Every day is another day without justice and I worry that I won't live to see victims and families get the justice they deserve."

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Pope heads to Nunavut to apologize at end of Canadian tour

Pope Francis is wrapping up his Canadian pilgrimage by meeting with Indigenous delegations and visiting Inuit territory in northern Nunavut

The Independent UK

Christianity was a major part of Indigenous boarding schools – a historian whose family survived them explains

During a weeklong trip to Canada, Pope Francis visited a former residential school for Indigenous children in Maskwacis, Alberta, on July 25, 2022. The Ermineskin Residential School operated between 1895 and 1975 in Cree Country, the largest First Nations group in Canada.

The Conversation

Italian priest apologises for holding mass service in sea using lilo as an altar

A priest in Crotone, Southern Italy, earned himself a slap on the wrist from the local diocese after conducting mass on a lilo in the sea. The special mass was because of a hot day at the end of a youth camp

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The pope's apology to Indigenous people doesn't go far enough, Canada says

The pope apologized to Indigenous peoples for abuses in church-run residential schools. Canada's response suggests that reconciliation over the fraught history is still a work in progress.

The Independent UK

Canadian government says Pope Francis apology over church abuses does not go far enough

Pope asks for ‘forgiveness’ on Monday at Maskwacis, Alberta

Reuters

Pope seeks forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian residential schools

Pope Francis on Thursday asked for forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian schools for indigenous children run by Catholic orders, addressing a deep wound that many survivors wanted him to acknowledge during his apology tour in Canada.

The Independent UK

Claudy families pursue Catholic Church over late priest’s alleged involvement

Legal action against the PSNI and Northern Ireland Office last year saw settlements agreed ‘without admission of liability’ over bombing.

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'Spiritual refugees' feel the loss of closed Catholic churches in Seattle. Some are appealing to the Vatican

SEATTLE — For the past three Sundays, a couple of dozen people gathering to pray in Mount Baker have met outside a locked church door.

France 24

Canada says pope's apology for abuses at Catholic residential schools not enough

The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress.

The Independent UK

Canada says pope's apology to Indigenous not enough

The Canadian government says Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses they suffered in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough

The Independent UK

Pope in Quebec amid decline of Catholic Church in province

Pope Francis arrives in Quebec at a time when many French Canadians are not only continuing to move away from religion but explicitly rejecting it

Al Jazeera

Pope’s Canada visit ‘doesn’t heal’ wounds of Indigenous survivors

For many Indigenous survivors of abuse in Canada, the papal tour is a reminder of the ‘horrors’ committed against them.

The Independent UK

A #toosoon moment? Pope in headdress draws mixed response

It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly donning a full Indigenous headdress, after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children

The Conversation

I survived the ’60s Scoop. Here's why the Pope's apology isn't an apology at all

Pope Francis came this week to Maskwasic in central Alberta — where many Indigenous people, including survivors of residential schools and their descendants, had gathered — to deliver an expected apology in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action No. 58:

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