Before entering the Quebec church, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that Pope Francis could have said more this week in his apologies
Some of them wanted an apology that, they said,of the Catholic Church for its part in Canada’s abusive residential schools system, instead of casting the blame on some bad priests and nuns, and the government officials who turned their backs to their appalling behaviour.
Kathryn Lambert of New Brunswick sat in a pew for two hours before the mass started at the enormous church set along the St. Lawrence River just east of Quebec City, lost in thought about the two years she attended a residential school in Nova Scotia in the mid-1960s, when she was a child. She accepts that the Pope’s apologies made earlier in the week, including one made in Quebec City on Wednesday, were sincere – but feels theyPope Francis hosts mass at the National Shrine of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec.Pope Francis celebrates mass at the National Shrine of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec.Pope Francis arrives for mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupre in Quebec.
The English translation of Francis’s homily at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré does not specifically mention “residential schools.” Instead, the Pope obliquely referred to them by mentioning the failings and sins that led to the execution of the Messiah on the cross at Calvary, the site near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.“At those times, we can do little more than cling to our sense of failure and ask: What happened? Why did it happen? How could it happen?” Francis said.
In his homily, he encouraged Catholics to “take a new look at many of the events of our own history,” presumably referring to the residential schools, and said that the Church felt a “burden of failure,” again presumably referring to the schools.the basilica went to Indigenous peoples, many of them residential school survivors. Thousands more watched the mass on giant TV screens outside.
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