Try refreshing your browser, or Raymond J. de Souza: The meaning of Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous people Back to video “We accept this apology,” said Chief Gerald Antoine, head of the Assembly of First Nations delegation. Article content After spending more than four hours listening to testimonies from Indigenous leaders this past week in Rome, Pope Francis offered his sincere and far-reaching apology on Friday. Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, thinks about the Canadian Indigenous experience in the context of the entire colonial experience of the Americas. Article content Third, Pope Francis made clear that evangelization itself, the sharing of the Christian faith with Indigenous peoples in Canada, was not included in his apology. Finally, Pope Francis went back to the first pages of the bible, as he often does when speaking of man’s inhumanity to man.

Source: National Post April 02, 2022 02:57 UTC