While he still did not expand on what those concrete actions may be, the Pope did say that they will rely on the intercession of Indigenous women and elders.
Pope Francis blesses the crowd with water drawn from the lake in Lac Ste. Anne, Alta., during the community's annual pilgrimage, which regularly welcomes tens of thousands of Indigenous participants, on Tuesday.
This is the second time Josephine and John Echodh travelled to see a Pope. They are Denesuline, from Black Lake, Sask., and were in Fort Simpson, N.W.T. when Pope John Paul II visited Canada in 1987. "Her grandmother walked to Lac St. Anne when [my mother] had cancer, and so we felt it was important to come back here today," she said, adding that her mother recovered.
During his address, Pope Francis made parallels between St. Anne, who is widely revered as the grandmother of Jesus, and the vital role of Indigenous women and elders in their communities. "That loss was certainly tragic, but your presence here is a testimony of resilience ... All of us, as church, now need healing: healing from the temptation of closing in on ourselves, of defending the institution rather than seeking the truth."
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