Pope Francis’s apology for residential schools in Canada triggers strong reactions | Nightline

On a historic trip to Canada, the Pope apologized to Indigenous communities for the Church's role in a residential school system that forcibly assimilated Indigenous people, leaving lasting trauma.
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[@nancychace8619]

This may not be perfect but it's been a good step in the right direction. For an 85 yr. old man in his condition to make such a long trip says a lot in itself. He's made a good effort.

[@santiagogiraldoramirez8502]

it's not just a good a effort, but love and the truth.

[@santiagogiraldoramirez8502]

it's also not his fault.

[@rikkwakeupwesternworld9874]

@@santiagogiraldoramirez8502 Santiago Giraldo Ramirez Yes it IS his fault....This scab in white robes is, together with many of his henchmen responsible for denials, cover up and abject contempt for the victims and families of the rape, molesting and even murder of innocent children the world over. All committed by vermin who masquerade as Roman Catholic clergy, Christian brothers and the many other cancerous vultures responsible who have carried out these crimes throughout history. As always a pathetic apology, too little too late ,1000 years or more! The RC. church has never given up even one of its criminals for lawful punishment anywhere in the world...EVER. So hold on to your rosary beads very tightly and say a prayer for the many victims of your church, more of the same is forthcoming!

[@myman8336]

Where does it end

[@rikkwakeupwesternworld9874]

Nancy Chace Pity he did not make a 'good effort' and gave up some of the cancerous scum for lawful punishment who have raped, molested and murdered innocent children the world over. You might adopt a different perspective if one of your family was a victim. His 'good effort' is all one sided, a shallow pathetic apology 1000 years too late especially since the cancerous animals who thrive within his church are still well protected today. Look up this Godless scab's service when he was in South America, not something to be proud of, not his finest hour! He is a Godless scab on humanity, an 85 year old parasite whose church thrives where poverty, squalor and the uneducated reside!

[@KawaiiBabyy13]

Not only did the church did wrong but Canada tired to ignore the tragedy afterwards. I hope this event shed more light and even towards the Indigenous people on America's soil.

[@gracegreen1859]

All of the Americas

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

Los Estados Unidos hicieron cosas horribles y no era católicos.

[@philippotter1610]

Not really sure why the Pope is apologizing and not receiving one???? Remember he is a Jesuit Priest. The Indigenous People killed many Jesuit Priests!!!! Sorry, the Indigenous People murdered many Jesuit Priests. Where is the apology????? In 1649, Brébeuf and another missionary were captured when an Iroquois raid took over a Huron village (referred to in French as St. Louis). Together with Huron captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and killed on 16 March 1649. Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and among eight Jesuit missionaries canonized as saints in the Catholic Church in 1930

[@firstnamelastnamethirdname]

​@@philippotter1610 both parties must admit the sins of their parents and all. But media keeps disconnecting or pushing one agenda rather to bring the entire truth.

[@id7081]

I agree , Canada preaches peace , love and equality to foreigners yet tries to cover up a slaughter of innocent children, that was here long before before the word canada. The Canadian flag should fly at half mast forever.

[@greenfairy4894]

I could care less about his apology. There was RITUAL and SEXUAL ABUSE.

[@andrew-hv1hv]

Source: trust me bro

[@gardy4390]

@John Doe if you still don't know what they did everywhere in the world you are asleep ,hope you wake up one day .it's people like you who are approving the crimes all religions comit in the world.

[@Kitiwake]

HOW DO YOU KNOW?

[@greenfairy4894]

I know because I’ve done the research. Have you! Pedo Orgies etc.

[@marioreds7826]

You mean: "I couldn't care less". If you say you coul care less, it means you somewhat care.

[@chloecullen1706]

It is a small step for the church abuse went far beyond canda. This happened in Ireland Germany America and so many more countries. Its a culture that has not been forgotten and got the time or recognition so that people can start to heal. Rip to anyone who died due to the abuse in the catholic church and I am in aww to those who have survived. Hopefully you all can in time see change and heading 🙏 this comes from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@PlayshotKalo]

I remember reading about the mass grave found in an Ireland Catholic mother and baby home, inside a septic tank. Residential schools, forced adoptions and sterilization of unknowing native women happened in the US as well under Catholic programs. Catholic hospitals also did medical experiments on native children after forcefully taking children from their parents and flying them thousands of miles away without their parents under the lie that those children had TB. It was basically a legal organized crime, human trafficking and experimentation group operating under the pretense of religion. The only difference is the Canadian government actually recognizes the wrongs committed against the indigenous in their country

[@valphri9349]

no its not everyone thinks there's never gonna be reconciliation we don't want reconciliation we want the crown and popes head on a stick

[@valphri9349]

funny how your from Ireland 🤡

[@nibsvkh]

@@valphri9349 Funny how you don’t know it’s you’re not your! Btw why is it funny?

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

Why in Europe?

[@MONi_LALA]

An apology wouldn't bring the death or wipe away the pain and suffering. But it's a good start of healing and acknowledging that these people of God are not always good.

[@LylatKnight]

Very true.

[@j-lenapi5785]

Well, in one way we are all Gods people but those you are taking about are just hypocrites just like Pharisees

[@TheStonerKoala]

The racist pedo, mass murderer pope should resign. Ppl say he didn't do the killings but that's wrong, Pope been alive for more than 100yrs, he's a lizard vampire.

[@TheShadowBannedBandit]

@@j-lenapi5785 Every human alive is a hypocrite my friend.

[@sparrowhawk5673]

The pope is not a person of god he proclaims to be a god

[@DJoy221]

After reading and watching in documentaries what those poor families went through from 1880’s until the 90’s! 90’s!!!! Is absolutely horrific!!! An apology is the least the pope and church could have done.

[@Kitiwake]

But it was the 1880s. Not 2023. This was when wars against the indigenous were still ongoing. The threat of violence was in most schools everywhere up to the 1990s. Get real

[@user__100]

Britain killed 4 million Indians in Bengal in 1943 by imposing a famine

[@dnndnn-ub7gv]

Britain is interracial. Sabatoged by the only true vikings from the lands referred to as ireland and scandinavia. They hide behind their victims/targets. So awful! The common denominator anywhere people are struggling and unnecessarily. The enemy ends up the minority yet guilty of all the suffering and privileging themselves all ways of it. Healthier environment in scandinavia and obviously whiter areas of ireland. They steal people relocate them rape them trap impregnate cover in false identities settle in people using others identities to work for them and the list against these people goes on thousands of years.

[@catherineto]

Always be clear and remember that church is not god. It’s an institution only. Priests are sinners

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

Fundado por Jesús y formado por seres humanos como usted y yo.

[@magasaremooks]

Show them the money. But no the Rich Catholic Church expects Canadians to pay for the compensation. FACT.

[@gardy4390]

The catholic church is one of the richest in the world, they should pay not the Tax payers. They the are ones who used & abused the people. Religions are is the biggest Evil in the world.

[@magasaremooks]

Fact

[@Kitiwake]

@@magasaremooks fiction.

[@phoenixman8569]

Yes, the dioceses should be paying first nations billions in restitutions now....

[@greenfairy4894]

How could these atrocities have continued in this last century and most did not know. Unbelievable!

[@gaywizard2000]

The last school closed in the 1980s!

[@Worldwideguy96]

@@gaywizard2000 1996 actually

[@gaywizard2000]

@@Worldwideguy96 sh.t! I knew it was somewhere in that ballpark! To think no one talked about it, I was in school in the 70s and 80s, sheesh!

[@mdislam8944]

Atrocities still going on but the victims are different now.

[@mason2547]

Pope said, so sorry we get caught.

[@Tonya23experience]

Not enough and too late

[@mauriciobantuspirit3629]

READ OR UTUBE THE SPANISH INQUISITION

[@anniemayflower9187]

This why im atheist these Christians full of hatred

[@philippotter1610]

Bigot!!!

[@debrafirestone861]

The Church has to do a lot of apologizing these days Between this and the Holacast and the sexual abuse it’s really unbelievable Nobody is a Saint

[@becauseofreasonslol]

I almost agree, the church does have a lot to apologize for but If you mean the holocaust, I don't know what the church had to do with that, they were strongly opposed to Hitler, some of the only protests in Germany against Hitler at the time were lead by priests

[@sympathy4thedevil88]

@@becauseofreasonslol this is an old half baked slam. The call is that by not directly fighting specifically the Holocaust itself the church was complacent in genocide. Well then the entire world was too until the GIs rolled up on the concentration camps. Not saying that there isn't a lot that has been done in the name of the church that have been horrible that we have to make amends for. The Nazi Holocaust is not one of them.

[@alexcondado7885]

... didn't catholics die during the holocaust as well... Maximilian kolbe?

[@mnmmcg3543]

@@becauseofreasonslol They looked the other way when when the Catholic Croatians were genociding Jews and Serbs.

[@luismanuelpotenciano1300]

@@mnmmcg3543 San Maximiano Kolbe y Santa Edith Stein Carmelite nun of Jewish origin

[@adelinesimmons8152]

Can Trudeau now apologize for forcing vaccines on Canadians and resign now?

[@boazjimenez581]

He did legalize weed

[@elizabethedwards7082]

The Pope should also apologize to Ireland and the US for all the cultures they destroyed in order to push their religion.within the countries. Apologize also for all the hypocrisy they pushed.

[@luismanuelpotenciano1300]

Irlanda ha sido católica durante muchos siglos desde el siglo 5.

[@suziesparrow8445]

Whether they apologize..or not priests and nuns, etc. Actually, all Catholic leaders should be eliminated... we don't need them. They/We had our own Religion before they came around. They should all be eliminated from their so-called church and religion, they should be punished. Why feel sorry for them? The pope is the leader and all his men. Why do they get to be free after raping and killing children? Thousands and thousands...of children. Why is it okay for them to walk free? They need to admit to sexual assault and murder and they need to turn over the records. If not they should be no more..easy as that.

[@seankingwell3692]

they can't they need white people to take the fall for their crimes

[@starfireooo4844]

And people wonder why people are leaving the catholic church in droves.

[@armandob.castenelli3525]

He is apologizing for those sinners who did this to all of these people. Be thankful he did. He himself had nothing to do with what happened. An apology is an apology and you decide whether you take it and move on or continue living in misery.

[@lharris4118]

AH SU

[@Worldwideguy96]

There is nothing to be thankful for here. An apology won't bring back the 10 000 innocent who were buried in unmarked graves. We have a long way to come. I suggest you do some research before posting comments like these.

[@armandob.castenelli3525]

@@Worldwideguy96 Of course I did researched. I was also a victim of a depraved priest as a child. Do you think I am going to live my life in misery because of that? No. I need to live my life the best I can. I am not in this world to judge anyone. Their is a higher power that will. In the mean time🙌👉

[@allwillberevealed777]

@@armandob.castenelli3525 What higher power? Gawd damn pale skin g-Zeus? Yeah, I bet the priest that fondled you was saying, "Oh g-Zeus that feels good", when you were knobling him down. 🤣 That the same g-Zeus who's going to judge him? 🤡 ✝️🙋🏼👈🏽🖕🏽

[@Worldwideguy96]

@@armandob.castenelli3525 I'm sincerely sorry you had to experienced that. Truly. However, I'm assuming that you are a non indigenous person. The trauma from residential schools, the generational trauma that has also been passed on, is different from your experience. Asking Indigenous people to simply ''accept the apology moving on and choosing to do so'' is completely out of touch. Again, I invite you to learn about the history of our residential schools in Canada. I assure you it will be eye opening. Thanks.

[@nativefraulein5801]

I am Native American and I am a practicing Catholic. My great-grandparents and grandparents and great uncles went to residential schools. I am happy that Pope Francis did this. I am sorry for what my family and other families went through, but the mercy of Christ triumphs all. I encourage anyone who is interested to learn more about Catholicism's first Native saint Kateri Tekakwitha too.

[@sweed6054]

Leave the church whybwould you want to be affiliated with it?

[@musicisgoodforthesoul999]

To Nativefraulein19: I'm Catholic too and love your post❤️❤️

[@ashleystar4773]

I did a book project on Kateri Tekawitha in 4th grade & was my Confirmation Saint for Confirmation in 8th grade. I'm not Native American or anything like that but it is nice to bring some recognition to this saint because I know not everyone knows who she is.

[@luismanuelpotenciano1300]

@Moonlight God you blessed :)

[@luismanuelpotenciano1300]

In Mexico there is San Juan Diego

[@ivananincicosterle1072]

"Healing is not only us - it is not only the indigenous community that has to heal. It has to be the church as well. Healing has to come on both sides." Profound.

[@TheOctubre12]

He did it!! We waited very long time for a Pope like him! 🙌👏🏻🙏

[@theshogunsassassin5122]

@nancy per What did he do?

[@allisonbarnett5055]

@@theshogunsassassin5122 nothing. Absolutely nothing

[@allisonbarnett5055]

@John Doe nah. I'm not a Christian... In fact, I hate them. It's just good ol fashion hate.

[@tonamg53]

@@allisonbarnett5055 Doing absolutely nothing is 10 times better than useless whining that doesn’t help with anything

[@allisonbarnett5055]

@@tonamg53 whining? How TF is this whining? I'm blatantly saying F you.....

[@SophiaVienna123]

Not your fault Frances. You’re taking a hit for what history has done and you’re a hero in my eyes. ❤️ we must set things right. Im praying for you. I will help you if you need help.

[@jcentricity]

"And he (Collection of Papal clergy priests) deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs ( Catholic Antichrist miracles ) which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast (Antichristendom Papal Antichrist kingdom) telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast (image is idol (also image represents moral image of the worshippers in that they have been shaped into the image of an idol spiritually blind and spiritually cannot hear like an idol cannot see or hear) which is the Eucharist/Mass Wafer they believe through transubstantiation the bread literally becomes Jesus they turned bread into the worst idol of the ages. This is THE Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel and Jesus in Matthew 24. 70AD destruction was a type of desolation but not THE Abomination of Desolation. Notice how Jesus uses the word THE basically he's alluding to the worst idol of the ages which is the Eucharist Mass Wafer) who was wounded by the sword and lived. (Rome wounded when it became Christian empire it was healed when paganism was revived under Roman Catholicism)" The word APOSTATE in the Greek equals the number of the beast and APOSTATE is a name of a person and aka name of name of the beast. Specifically people would fall away from the true pristine church and embrace the doctrine of demons which includes the worship of saints, relics and sepluchres (e.g Church of the Holy Sepulchre) and (accept Antichrist idolatry that is setup in their heart so Antichrist spiritually rules from within the idolator's temple (their physical body). Thessalonians talks about the Great APOSTASY where people will become APOSTATE --- Revelation 13:14 NKJV

[@ronniejames1110]

Their only thoughts are " when we gonna get that free undeserved payday from the Vatican?"

[@cliftongreene5318]

@Ronnie James: Lakota won't touch the Black Hills money held in Trust by the US government. Now go clean your double wide Hillbilly Boy!

[@ronniejames1110]

@@cliftongreene5318 There is no money..they just tell you that so you shut up and crawl back in your bottle ..Indians be so gullible that's how you lost your ability to freely squat on land that was never yours lmao..I don't live in a trailer ..I'm not native .

[@datboi945]

@@ronniejames1110got any proof?

[@ronniejames1110]

@@datboi945 The last 100 years of native history.

[@datboi945]

@@ronniejames1110 then you clearly don’t have any concept of context

[@pouty222]

most people that went to residential school wont hear this apology… rip

[@doretheapaxton2615]

God's going to judge him. Let us not. Peace be with you 🙏

[@Doug-zl8nb]

You just think how many lives .. have been ruined because of these characters hide behind the church to do the crime

[@CT-eg1hm]

The pope apologizing is a waste of time in my opinion. All this happened well before he was even alive. Also as horrible as it was nothing will bring back these children. So all this apology is smoke and mirrors

[@lharris4118]

African Americans can relate.

[@philippotter1610]

Relate to what? That black people sold there black people into slavery!

[@BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Thoughts and Prayers are all well and good but Talk is Cheap What actual reparations is the Church going to make ? !

[@mauriciob5757]

El falso profeta pidiendo perdón por algo que Nunca hizo la iglesia.

[@myvt5360]

Words are just that, mere words. Sad, this is all we expect from their ancestors.

[@philippotter1610]

150 years and still pushing guilt????

[@explorer1968]

An inmense work of healing has to be done in all of Canada!

[@Hegen601]

It's to late! So many children have suffered an are dade. This is true murder!😭

[@laurenraker9047]

Everybody needs to get over their sales number one number two it's not the pontiff of the Pope it's not his at what rageous fear I mean don't y'all worship sun god well that's Egypt but don't you worship somebody the wind or this or that you don't even worship Jesus really indigenous people and this comes from somebody who is got Indian in their blood

[@laurenraker9047]

Everybody cries for everything righteous but we're on the move here for things this pup is trying to open up avenues that the Catholic Church doesn't ever talk about which is gay and this that and the other which would be whatever so people need to stop talking about the pope leave him alone and let him be in his glory he is the vicar of Christ and I thank God we have somebody that's a representative so pure and beautiful

[@ismaelcarrillo3956]

The Catholic church did the same with the Azteca tribes in Latin America.

[@CurtisBenjaminIsrael4453]

Because the Aztecas along with these Natives are TWO of the 12 Tribes of Israel.

[@jessicadorion8507]

They're pretty much notorious for those crimes wherever they landed and made a place of worship.

[@tippiebear6532]

So did the protestants in America.

[@luismanuelpotenciano1300]

As if the Spaniards allied themselves with the enemies of the Aztecs, the Tlaxcatelcas and the Totonacs, and had Malinche as their interpreter. In addition, Latin America did not exist, that took centuries to form.

[@firstnamelastnamethirdname]

the Aztecs massacred and sacrificed people in the name of their Gods so like what's the point?

[@SHINBET666]

He’s not sorry , he’s shopping for more little children 👶🏻 💯👿👍🏻

[@MarkDavid-gi9vw]

"Evil, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority." - Hannah Arendt (Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil)

[@joshhoward1289]

This is a fool’s game. Nothing will ever be enough. We learn from history not to repeat it, that’s it.

[@tanyasharadamba1264]

A tiny step, with countless more that need to happen next.

[@shivnegi6614]

Apologize my foot 👟👟

[@nelivilebsquared5919]

An apology by the pope is very strong and a step to the right direction, He Who apologizes is better than that who doesn't offer any apology

[@valphri9349]

say it like it is, thousands upon thousands or traumatized dead children

[@philippotter1610]

fiction???

[@valphri9349]

@@philippotter1610 what do u mean fiction?

[@srihariselvaraj5115]

Sanction the vatican

[@debrafirestone861]

It’s to late the damage has already been done

[@philippotter1610]

150 ago...get over!!!

[@rob0576a]

This pope talks about reconciliation and how sorry he is but every rime he speaks its in spiritual imagery that has no practical value to the natives sitting before him. Where is the plan to address their concerns...apologies may be welcome BUT ARE NOT ENOUGH!!!!

[@philippotter1610]

there is no innocence on either side: In 1649, Brébeuf and another missionary were captured when an Iroquois raid took over a Huron village (referred to in French as St. Louis). Together with Huron captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and killed on 16 March 1649. Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and among eight Jesuit missionaries canonized as saints in the Catholic Church in 1930.[ Maybe the Indigenous leaders owe an apology???? Two years later and still no bodies exhumed?????? An Australian and America news outlet is calling this the biggest fake news story in Canadian history!!!!!

[@hollybock8463]

1. The missionaries chose to do what they chose to do. 2. These were innocent children who were ripped from their parents placed in a school with hundreds of others had no one to raise them accept people who repeatedly beat, raped starved and neglected them and you don’t think they are owed an apology? This was done on the orders of the Catholic Church if you think this is somehow comparable at all I really don’t know what to say to you.

[@m3n4cE6]

my neural monitorings being archived as multimedia scripture, youre finished

[@delilahsamson3143]

The Romish Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christ-like garments; but she is unchanged. Every principle of popery that existed in past ages exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none deceive themselves. The popery that Protestants are now so ready to honor is the same that ruled the world in the days of the Reformation, when men of God stood up, at the peril of their lives, to expose her iniquity. She possesses the same pride and arrogant assumption that lorded it over kings and princes, and claimed the prerogatives of God. Her spirit is no less cruel and despotic now than when she crushed out human liberty, and slew the saints of the Most High.” (Great Controversy, p. 570 1888).

[@Nastiazik]

Greetings from Moscow 🇷🇺 I mount my videos and put yours in the background so that it won't be boring to work

[@debrafirestone861]

All in the name of religion

[@keiththegoodson9857]

False religion , soon God will destroy all of these satanic organizations that claim to represent him ...rev 17:16,17 rev 18:20-22

[@human_bot_]

No, in the name of one religion...one that they twisted and perverted to fit their own agenda. Don't bash religion in general. That's what intolerant bigots do

[@Packguardian_gacha8684]

Seriously, is the point of Christianity to spread hope and love, or is it just there to spread fear and sadness?

[@eltororomantico2601]

Esta peregrinación debería de continuar asta llegar a sur america. De otra forma será solo un show político.

[@natn.5022]

Esto es cierto. Lo mismo pasó en Latinoamérica, y la gente indígena de allí también sufren por eso todavía.

[@patrickjenkins7375]

He don't mean it

[@Packguardian_gacha8684]

Geez look at the faces of the nuns in the photos. Were they sure they werent the evil ones?

[@debrafirestone861]

There are no Saints at all

[@benherrera1561]

they have been doing this EVERYWHERE for centuries.

[@nolmar6596]

My child's name is Brooklyn Marie Dunnigan not only has she been taken from Alberta from me by the mother for 4 years I got to see my child was January 6th of last year complaining about being in pain between her legs at 4 years old again the family is involved with the Hell's Angels and a club that loves to molest and kidnap children apparently this has been running in the family for over 40 years please help my child and stop this game/club. Stephany Belair Dunnigan , Diana Dunnigan 42 rue moreau Quebec Bedford helping groom my child . Not only have the Bedford police refused to help me they have now put an investigation on the father me so that they can make sure that this child is growing up involved with the club they have done nothing to try to save the child they've waited three months after January 6th to go see my child after I called the police every single day and all they did was laugh and hang up on me the Bedford police in Canada are getting paid off by her uncle and everyone doesn't give a f*** about my child because I'm an English white native man please please help somebody please not only is the club out for me and making sure my life has been f***** over I need to make sure my child safe and nobody out there cares can someone please help me....help stop this club and make Canada great please help save my child ......

[@AllegedlyControversial]

Words mean nothing if actions are not attached to them. Expose the pedos and child abusers that are still alive instead of ignoring them and continuing to hide what they did

[@vindicatednews9169]

They say "Christianization" should have said Catholicization

[@christopherwalsh3101]

The Pope isn't from Canada. How is his apology means anything??

[@gmac8586]

because he is not apologizing on behalf of himself, but as the head of the organization responsible for what was done.

[@annsas-nsas3470]

Miséricorde au séminaire St Antoine des franciscains de trois riviere s honneur à ste Elisabeth de Hongrie et à ste Cécile de valleyfield

[@CT-eg1hm]

Indegineous people want reconciliation? Sounds like code for more money. Nothing anyone says or does will bring back these children so get over it

[@Kitiwake]

Apparently, nothing to apologies about.

[@jamesnash6101]

An apology is not enough. I think that those schools need to be restored for tourists to see and never forget. The land surrounding the schools need to be converted into a cemetery. And the Catholic church needs to pay for the renovations.

[@phoenixman8569]

its almost too late, most were torn down years ago only a hand full remain now...

[@jesuslifelife6815]

Pope Francis is acting like prime minister of india.

[@arlenebosse-mcdermott683]

Decades? You mean a century and a bit more.

[@fanny3942]

Unfortunately, no, it won’t erase anything that happened on those years, but it is so good and nice Pope Francisco gave the apology needed if I can say it this way, please consider it, take it into your heart, The Pope is the church and he represents every one of us Catholics. I, catholic, am very super sorry for what happened on those years to those little ones, and ask our indigenous brothers and sisters to forget and forgive. Now if you want money, ask for it and I am sorry to say this. Because I think The Pope visit it counts and it counts a lot, be nice with him.

[@lemongauche]

> I, catholic, am very super sorry for what happened on those years to those little ones, and ask our indigenous brothers and sisters to forget and forgive. Maybe rethink the word "forget" here. The children were abused and murdered. There are adults today who are survivors of these schools. Who could forget?

[@fanny3942]

@@lemongauche 😞😞😞I do not know that is going to depend on every person still alive and those who are dead, I’m very sure they are in God’s glory. This all I can say.

[@fanny3942]

@@carlosfasano800 Merry Christmas to you too 🎄 and thank you 🙏🏼

[@phillipchavez755]

How can we Except a apology when we too committed Suffering to our own kind more then 300 years ago .

[@titusmaximus7278]

Wow , hi I'm poop Francis I apologize for abuse n neglect of your native people. There i feel all warm fuzzy n better now. Don't you too

[@deanabarr3227]

Disgusting...God is outraged!!!

[@makoyiniito5383]

Us People claim to be strong People and CANADA isn't going to undo all what they have done. We are all impacted by boarding schools in one format or another but the church is trying to move forward in a better direction and maybe this is the time to be as strong as we claim and start our healing. And showing how our kids how to over things that our people experienced. NIITSTIITAPII

[@robertyounkerman7881]

U candians hate the USA but without us your bitches. Th

[@tamikatruths7062]

The devil knows who we are the red man can’t take history from the lord’s people 👊🏾

[@jerrypartine2973]

The Pope is a humble man and he did apologize on behalf of some Christians that did wrong in the past. Now if they don’t want to accept the apology is up to them. God save the Pope!

[@Kitiwake]

Well said.

[@keithpatrick7151]

Peace ✌

[@oneileo66]

The ills of the past are insurmountable

[@moholah3745]

O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people. Quran 5:51

[@leonbrown7911]

It's something - finally.

[@Michael-oq2oq]

Apology, jail to those still around & show me the 💰. The devil where's white👺💀☠. 😎

[@phoenixman8569]

that no longer possible, almost all who ran those schools are dead now.

[@j.a.26]

You are being deceived. He apologized for Christians. Christians pray to God thru Jesus. Not Mary. You are being deceived.

[@nondhimmi1]

Cthulhu has cursed you

[@RaisedxFist]

Fucking Thaank Youu, I just pointed thaat out in My comment I posted !

[@magasaremooks]

🥱

[@avail1.]

What additional comfort can be extended to families who lost family members?? John 8:44. Luke 17:3,4

[@keiththegoodson9857]

False religion will soon be destroyed for good ...revelation 17:16,17 , revelation 18:20-22

[@RaisedxFist]

The Beast & the False Prophet.

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

God you blessed bro Catholic Church

[@anthonyparker9974]

Revelation 18:1-4

[@CurtisBenjaminIsrael4453]

What they did to the Tribe of Gad, ONE of the 12 Tribes of Israel,(Genesis 49),and will not end the way they think. No amounts of apologies will stop what God will do to those who have enslaved and slaughtered the 12 Tribes of Israel.(Joel 3:2, Revelation 13:10, Jeremiah 30:16, Obadiah 1:18, Isaiah 14:1-2)..These nations will ALL be called upon to STAND TRIAL BEFORE GOD TO ANSWER FOR THESE ATROCITIES!! NO SIN GO UNPUNISHED!! Furthermore, dont TRUST these "apologies,"(Psalms 83), they are meaningless, and is a trick for something else..wait and see.

[@maricruzgutiez5199]

Pienso que es muy bueno que haya perdido perdon

[@tanyasharadamba1264]

Decent coverage too.

[@justintuccimusic]

2:23

[@Emboarepic]

it looks like some of them were from Papua New Guinea

[@John-viheavyequipment]

We are sorry and regret that these schools existed and the things that happened where so dark and the history of slavery and all out dark history, it’s not good to keep looking in the past and need to look forward, and not hold it over everyone any longer we need to move forward everyone should have the same rights pay the same taxes we are all Canadian let’s look eye to eye

[@lancemorin3967]

My friend, isn't the long term killing, subjugation, oppression of our men, women and children who's indigenous peoples fill the penitentiaries, have the highest number of children in governmemt care, and incarceration for the smallest minority group in Canada enough? Is the stealing of lands, resources of water, gold, oil, diamonds, timber, and all the other vast abundant resources your people benefited from for the past 500 years from the suffering of our people enough? Now you want us to pay taxes and have all the laws and treaties the British Crown wrote to be broken? My friend, if you did your research, indigenous people who live and work off the reserve pay all the taxes that everyone else pays. The only place peoples don't pay taxes is if you work on reserve. I agree with moving on and not living in the past, this is important but people and institutions who've done the wrongs in the past, is a huge step forward to at least admitting there was something done wrong by the people and institutions have committed it. This is something that has been avoided and ignored for quite sometime, and this is a huge step forward in righting the wrongs done not so long ago.

[@maryannemelenka9250]

As horrible as atrocities at those schools. I don’t believe it was genocide I. The sense we know it. Genocide is ethnic cleansing like Holocaust. It was more a case of extreme physical abuse resulting in tragic death. Despite these sadistic animals i their goal was harsh discipline, but went to far, and many died. But if it kept happening and these people knew those children died and buried them, yes I think it would be genocide because filled with hate. I would love to know why these priests and nuns aside from sexual abuse were so mean. Opus Dei? Where you inflict harsh punishment, upbringing in home, where did this meaness come from. I had two nun teachers in school who were mean. One hit my hand with a ruler other made me stand in the closet. Thank God I just went to school and went home. Those poor kids lived there round the clock! Where was their kindness empathy and compassion. ? Love to see a documentary on this on strict catholic upbringing, why priests and nuns go into service, though many really are sincere, devout and kind, no blemishes. Do these mean clerics go in because they can’t face life? Or are forced this service by family, mental illness, etc. Not excusing horrors of what they did, just would like to under stand psychologically their minds. I hope W5, 60 minutes delve into that. Not just sexual and physical abuses, but why? The causes, etc.

[@shelleynation-watson9283]

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. It most definitely is cultural genocide. The Federal government put in place specific laws to kill Native Americans. People received money for the scalps of Native Americans. All they had to do was bring in scalps. In some areas of the country where all of the Native Americans were already killed off, people began killing Europeans to take their scalps in for money. They would dye the hair so people would think they were the scalps of Indians.

[@tericarter2019]

😥

[@P1MPST1K]

But he won’t apologize on behalf of the church because of “the church can do no wrong”. A step in the right direction but doesn’t address the reality of the situation, nor does it bring back the people lost to the evil of the church. Peoples spirituality should be respected but no belief or action should be regarded unfalsifiable on this basis. Controversial statement I know but so were Galileo’s discoveries which the church forced him to recant by threat of imprisonment, torture and execution.

[@philippotter1610]

Not really sure why the Pope is apologizing and not receiving one???? Remember he is a Jesuit Priest. The Indigenous People killed many Jesuit Priests!!!! Sorry, the Indigenous People murdered many Jesuit Priests. Where is the apology????? In 1649, Brébeuf and another missionary were captured when an Iroquois raid took over a Huron village (referred to in French as St. Louis). Together with Huron captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and killed on 16 March 1649. Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and among eight Jesuit missionaries canonized as saints in the Catholic Church in 1930

[@P1MPST1K]

@@philippotter1610 I agree that that was wrong. But does that really compare to the thousands of CHILDREN murdered by the Catholic Church in America?

[@mikedooly7288]

What crap. All of the tribes fought among each other. Like Arab Unity it is a myth.

[@Argophobiac]

So, what other tribe put them in these schools?

[@Emboarepic]

5:46 what is that thing he's wearing?

[@Stardust-xl8nn]

Mere apologize 😤😤😤😤 A special team should be formed to investigate the systematic abuse of the children, the systematic emotional torture of the family members, for the homicide of the kids and racialism by the church and by the Canadian government and let law take its own course and give retribution to the affected families and for the whole indigenous people of Canada.

[@paulburton8264]

And you are sure this is all true ? Where are all the dead children from the "mass graves" that through the country into hysterics 14 months after the fact ? This has been and continues to be a scam for money

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

I am the LORD Jesus Christ. I've returned in My Native form, in My second coming. I approve of Pope Francis' apologies. I am asking First Nations, Native Americans to accept My leadership.

[@rykaro69]

?????

[@FollowerHz432]

This man is cooked

[@Hew77]

nigga high as a kite

[@shanedavey5214]

😆😆

[@dekapwt5618]

🙏🙏😔😔♥️♥️

[@edbasurto262]

Idk about the headdress he got either. They don't deserve that

[@emmnuelgodwithus342]

hammer heads