Ontario’s Regional Chief is expressing dismay at Pope Francis’ refusal to apologize to residential school survivors.
Isadore Day calls on Canadian Catholics to ask their priests to tell the Vatican that this long overdue apology must be issued.
In a media release from the Ontario Regional Chief it says the church’s influence on Indigenous society and established protocol was quick and harmful, with Indigenous children as their primary target in residential schools.
A St. Anne Residential School Survivor says it’s dissapointing but is typical behaviour for the Catholic Church to deny the harm they have inflicted on the Indigenous people of Canada.