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Pope lands in Canada to seek forgiveness from native communities

Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
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The Argentina-born Pope Francis Sunday arrived in Canada despite his walking impairment on a mission to seek the forgiveness of native communities for abuses perpetrated at education institutes run by the Catholic Church, which have been unearthed recently. Read full article

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  • Steve Potts

    Maybe he should look nearer home?

    Conquest of the Desert

    According to Carlos Martínez Sarasola, an Argentine anthropologist, up to half of the indigenous people living in Patagonia were killed during the conquest.

    Jul 25th, 2022 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • FortHay

    Whatever wrongs the church may have done and deserve an apology, it does not, as of yet, include any 'recently unearthed' evidence. It seems not a single 'grave' among the hundreds or thousands sensationally reported about has to this date been excavated, investigated or verified with state of the art criminal forensic technology: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-why-much-of-what-you-heard-about-residential-school-graves-is-wrong

    Jul 25th, 2022 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tænk

    Feel free to go into denial..., Yankee gemtleman above...

    We European Whites are the best that's happened for our planet...
    We are as nice and peace- loving folks as our religions were tolerant...
    Them blackies..., brownies..., redskins..., sandniggas..., chinks and wetbacks are just some envious..., lying..., devil worshiping aliens...

    Right....?

    Jul 27th, 2022 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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