{"id":1404383,"date":"2022-03-28T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404383"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:10:22","slug":"canada-indigenous-ask-pope-for-residential-schools-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-indigenous-ask-pope-for-residential-schools-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada indigenous ask pope for residential schools records"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanada-indigenous-ask-pope-for-residential-schools-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404383&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-28T121128Z_1_LYNXNPEI2R0K5_RTROPTP_0_CANADA-INDIGENOUS-VATICAN_1.jpg\" alt=\"Pope meets indigenous delegates from Canada's First Nations\" \/><br \/>\nMetis National Council president Cassidy Caron speaks to the media after meeting with Pope Francis near St. Peter&#8217;s Square at the Vatican, March 28, 2022. REUTERS\/Guglielmo Mangiapane<\/div>\n<p>March 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Philip Pullella<\/p>\n<p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) \u2013 Survivors of Canada\u2019s residential schools on Monday asked Pope Francis for unfettered access to Church records on the institutions where indigenous children were abused and their culture denied.<\/p>\n<p>Francis met for about an hour each with representatives of the M\u00e9tis and Inuit nations, the first of four meetings this week with Canada\u2019s native peoples in what both sides have called a called a process of healing and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very comfortable meeting,\u201d Cassidy Caron, president of the M\u00e9tis National Council, told reporters afterwards, adding that the pope listened attentively as three elderly survivors told their stories.<\/p>\n<p>The stated aim of the schools, which operated between 1831 and 1996, was to assimilate indigenous children. They were run by several Christian denominations on behalf of the government, most by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe repeated \u2018truth, justice and healing\u2019 (in English) and I take that as a personal commitment so he has personally committed to those three actions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt some sorrow in his reactions \u2026. we shared a lot with him,\u201d Caron said.<\/p>\n<p>About 150,000 children were taken from their homes. Many were subjected to abuse, rape and malnutrition in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called \u201ccultural genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Caron said the topic of records came up. Records are held in Canada, in archives of religious orders, and possibly in archives of the Vatican\u2019s missionary department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe M\u00e9tis nation needs to be sure to understand our full truth, and that will be unfettered access to Church records and we will be speaking more with the pope on this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s indigenous peoples and the Canadian government want the pope to visit Canada to make an apology there for the Church\u2019s role in the schools.<\/p>\n<p>Caron said she was not disappointed that the pope did not apologise on Monday because the indigenous want him to do so in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>She said she expected the trip to be \u201csoon.\u201d Vatican sources have said it will likely be this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the time for acknowledgement and apology and atonement is long overdue it is never too late to do the right thing,\u201d she said. \u201cNow it is his (the pope\u2019s) turn to join us in that work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A Vatican statement said the pope had a \u201cdesire to listen and make space for the painful stories of the survivors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The recurring schools scandal broke out again last year with the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops in the Western Canadian province of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery at the school, which closed in 1978, reopened old wounds and brought fresh demands for accountability. Hundreds more unmarked burial sites have been found since.<\/p>\n<p>Francis was elected pope nearly two decades after the last schools closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of justice is acknowledging what has taken place in the past. That acknowledgement, even though it was not him personally, is really meaningful and important,\u201d Caron said.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metis National Council president Cassidy Caron speaks to the media after meeting with Pope Francis near St. Peter&#8217;s Square at the Vatican, March 28, 2022. 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