The Pope’s visit, and the long struggle for Indigenous rights
. Some Indigenous people greeted it warmly and said they felt it was sincere. Some went as far as to say that it opened the door to forgiveness on their part, and to the possibility of personally moving on., the former senator and member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says the Pope fell short when he apologized for the misdeeds of individual Catholics, but not for the Church as a whole.
There are many who will agree that the Pope’s statement was too limited, and overly cautious. Even so, the fact that his visit was dedicated to contrition and reconciliation makes this one of the more significant events in the long history of the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. Protocol may have required that the visit be organized by Ottawa, and that Pope Francis be greeted by the prime minister and the governor-general, but the pontiff only came because Indigenous people demanded it.
Getting a remorseful Pope on a plane to Canada is one of the biggest moments to come out of many decades of struggle by Indigenous people.
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