Canadian cardinal downplays need for papal apology over residential schools

OTTAWA (CANADA)
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) [Toronto, Canada]

June 6, 2021

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WARNING: This video contains details some viewers may find distressing. Cardinal Thomas Collins downplayed the need for a papal apology for residential schools after Pope Francis did not deliver one on Sunday when talking about the preliminary findings announced by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation that indicated the remains of what could be 215 children buried on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.