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'A healing journey': Residential school survivors and the Church
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'A healing journey': Residential school survivors and the Church

AJ Longreads · Al Jazeera

June 12, 202214m 1s

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Show Notes

Pope Francis has apologised for the Roman Catholic Church's involvement in Indigenous residential schools in Canada. For more than 160 years children were abused in 
Canada’s residential school system. More than 60 percent of them were run by the Catholic Church.

But following the pope's apology, can survivors forgive?

Written by Brandi Morin.

Read by Laura Lockwood.

Topics

canada residential schoolspope francis apologyindigenous peopleschild abuse