CANADA
StarPhoenix
BY CREEDEN MARTELL, THE STARPHOENIX OCTOBER 3, 2015
People waiting for an apology from Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s role in sending aboriginal children to residential schools will have to keep waiting.
Apostolic Nuncio to Canada Luigi Bonazzi was in Saskatoon on Friday afternoon to attend a conference on restorative justice in Canada.
Earlier this summer, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its groundbreaking report, which chronicled years of assimilation efforts and emotional, sexual and physical abuse of young children at the hands of the residential school staff. The report called for a papal apology from Pope Francis for the church’s role in residential schools, similar to the apology delivered by former Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 to worldwide survivors of sexual assault by disgraced priests.
“We have listened carefully, given serious attention, to this call for action,” Bonazzi said. “We are seriously trying to see how we can respond positively.”
Bonazzi said Pope Francis’s trips are projects which have to be planned and prepared far in advance. He said the request is not one that is easy to accommodate.
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