Pope Francis arrived in Iqaluit on Friday for the final leg of a historic tour..
“How evil it is to break the bonds uniting parents and children, to damage our closest relationships, to harm and scandalize the little ones,” Francis said in Spanish, which was translated to Inuktitut and English, during his final public address in Iqaluit.
Arnrak Korgak, a day school survivor, said he had hoped Francis would go further in his apology and acknowledge the church, as an institution, played a role. But he said there was still healing in the Pope’s words. “Today is history,” she said. “It’s making a history that we are acknowledged as people, as the First Peoples of Canada.”
On Thursday, Francis denounced the “evil” of sexual abuse for the first time on the trip while at a prayer service in Quebec City. Cree Grand Chief Mandy Gull-Masty said the meeting was marked by some confusion as supporters of some residential school survivors were asked to leave the room by the archbishop’s staff even after papal security had let them in.
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