{"id":1415037,"date":"2022-04-01T13:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415037"},"modified":"2022-04-01T13:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:59:47","slug":"pope-francis-concedes-to-trudeau-apologizes-for-catholic-churchs-role-in-canadas-forced-assimilation-of-indigenous-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-concedes-to-trudeau-apologizes-for-catholic-churchs-role-in-canadas-forced-assimilation-of-indigenous-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Concedes To Trudeau, Apologizes For Catholic Church\u2019s Role In Canada\u2019s Forced Assimilation Of Indigenous Children"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpope-francis-concedes-to-trudeau-apologizes-for-catholic-churchs-role-in-canadas-forced-assimilation-of-indigenous-children%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=1415037&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-11.59.30-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Pope Francis apologized Friday for Catholic involvement in the Canadian government\u2019s boarding schools, years after a government report said these schools abused indigenous children in assimilation efforts, and less than a year after reports surfaced about the detection of unmarked graves at one of these residential schools.<\/p>\n<p>Francis said that he feels \u201cshame\u201d and \u201csorrow\u201d for the role\u00a0that Catholics played \u201cin the abuses you suffered and in the lack of respect shown for your identity, your culture and even your spiritual values,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/01\/world\/europe\/pope-apology-indigenous-people-canada.html\">according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian Truth and Reconciliation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trc.ca\/assets\/pdf\/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdf\">report<\/a> found in 2015 that at least\u00a04,100 students died during their time attending the Canadian government\u2019s schools, some from mistreatment, neglect, disease, or accident.<\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s apology is a response to demands from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/justin-trudeau-pope-franciss-apology-to-canadas-indigenous-a-step-forward-2857463\">accepted the apology Friday<\/a> as \u201ca step forward in acknowledging the truth of our past in order to write historical wrongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world leader\u2019s demands followed explosive media reports during the summer of 2021 that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/remains-of-hundreds-of-children-found-at-canadian-residential-school\">unmarked graves<\/a>\u00a0containing the remains of dozens of indigenous children had been discovered.<\/p>\n<p>An anthropologist reported discovering remains of indigenous children in May 2021 through ground-penetrating radar near the Kamloops Indian Residential School, which opened in 1890, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/27\/remains-of-215-children-found-at-former-residential-school-in-british-columbia.html\">according to the Toronto Star<\/a>. No remains appear to have been excavated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the size of the school, with up to 500 students registered and attending at any one time, we understand that this confirmed loss affects First Nations communities across British Columbia and beyond,\u201d Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk\u2019emlups te Secw\u00e9pemc First Nation said in a May 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/tkemlups.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-May-27-2021-TteS-MEDIA-RELEASE.pdf\">statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/remember-the-hundreds-of-childrens-remains-found-at-a-canadian-residential-school-that-narrative-may-be-collapsing\">reported in January<\/a> that the\u00a0Canadian journal The Dorchester Review was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorchesterreview.ca\/blogs\/news\/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found\">questioning<\/a> the discovery of unmarked graves. The anthropologist who says she detected the remains is Sarah Beaulieu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/health-and-social-innovation\/about\/faculty-associates\/beaulieu-sarah.htm\">who has worked<\/a> as an instructor in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of the Fraser Valley since 2018. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, but last July, she called her investigation \u201cpreliminary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to note that remote sensing, such as GPR, is not necessary to know that children went missing in the Indian residential school context,\u201d Beaulieu <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8030867\/more-details-ground-penetrating-radar-kamloops-residential-school\/\">said at a July news conference<\/a>. \u201cThis fact has been recognized by Indigenous communities for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence has existed in government and church archives for more than a century,\u201d she continued. \u201cCanada\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission\u2019s final report identified between 4,000 and 6,000 missing children, but anticipated that these actual numbers would be much greater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She cited the correlation between depressions in the ground and subsurface anomalies, configurations of these subsurface anomalies, a rib bone and tooth that were found in the same location, and the oral histories recounting burials in the orchard that she believes the remains are in.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Rouillard, a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Montreal, has noted that the anthropologist who discovered the highly discussed indigenous remains based her preliminary report \u201con depressions and abnormalities in the soil of an apple orchard near the school \u2013 not on exhumed remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rouillard contends that, with the widely circulated reports of the unmarked graves, governments and media have moved past allegations of \u201ccultural genocide\u201d to allegations of \u201cphysical genocide,\u201d something the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rejected in its 2015 report.\u00a0\u201cAnd all of this is based only on soil abnormalities that could easily be caused by root movements, as the anthropologist herself cautioned in the July 15 press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the media reports about the discovery of unmarked graves last year, at least ten Catholic Churches <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/02\/canada-catholic-church-burning-indigenous-graves\/\">were vandalized or burnt<\/a> to the ground. Many of these churches were on tribal grounds, the\u00a0Catholic news outlet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillarcatholic.com\/p\/church-fires-are-latest-chapter-in\">the Pillar reported at the time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across the country, including against Catholic churches,\u201d Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/7997859\/residential-schools-trudeau-church-burning-arson-vandalism\/\">said at the time<\/a>, noting that he understands the anger against \u201cinstitutions like the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is real and it\u2019s fully understandable, given the shameful history that we are all becoming more and more aware of and engaging ourselves to do better as Canadians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurn it all down,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/burn-it-all-down-head-of-b-c-civil-liberties-group-resigns-over-tweet-about-church-fires\">tweeted<\/a> Harsha Walia, the head of the\u00a0British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (one of the country\u2019s most significant civil rights groups).<\/p>\n<p>She subsequently left her job amid uproar over the comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Burn it all down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PwkKXuUGel\">https:\/\/t.co\/PwkKXuUGel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Walia (@HarshaWalia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarshaWalia\/status\/1410429063513067521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Calgary Police\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.calgary.ca\/police-investigating-vandalism-of-ten-churches\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0in June 2021 that \u201chandprints, the number \u2018215\u2019 and other markings suggest the vandalism was in response to the graves recently found at former residential schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police charged 23-year-old\u00a0Sebastian Rodriguez-Huerta \u201cwith two counts of mischief to a property primarily used for religious worship\u201d in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that these incidents also meet the threshold of being hate-motivated crimes,\u201d the police said.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the other perpetrators have not yet been caught, and the investigation remains open pending new evidence, a Calgary Police spokeswoman told The Daily Wire on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis apologized Friday for Catholic involvement in the Canadian government\u2019s boarding schools, years after a government report said these schools abused indigenous children in assimilation efforts, and less than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}