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Despite the lack of supporting evidence, a bill was introduced in Canada’s federal parliament last month that would criminalize statements that deviate from the prevailing narrative on residential schools.
‘These are lands that speak to us; they enable us to remember…’
The visit had been in the works since June 2021, following the discovery of what may be unmarked gravesites at the site of former residential schools.
In addition to the apology, the Indigenous leaders plan to ask Pope Francis for the release of all records that relate to the residential schools, and for the return of any Indigenous items from Canada that the Vatican may possess in its archives.
Since 1991 individual Catholic bishops, other leaders and dioceses and organizations involved in the residential schools have been issuing apologies for the residential schools and have sought to make amends.
Of the 25 schools in Alberta, 16 were operated by either a Catholic diocese or Catholic religious order.
The Kuper Island Industrial School operated from 1890 until 1975 in British Columbia.
EDITORIAL: In the face of recent attacks on Catholic churches it’s urgent to communicate a central pair of truths about the residential schools of Canada.
The number that was written on Holy Ghost church, “1323,” could have cited a June 25 article about the number of bodies that had been found in unmarked graves at the sites of former Canadian residential schools up to that point.
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