Pope is meeting Pierre Trudeau, Mary Simon before touring Plains of Abraham.
Two of the main criticisms that have emerged since Pope Francis apologized to residential school survivors was how he did not mention sexual abuse in his remarks and discussed the “evil” committed by Christians, but not the Catholic Church as an institution.
Miller says the pontiff’s words, delivered this week near Edmonton, are important to the survivors and communities now absorbing them. The minister says that apology — delivered by Pope Benedict XVI through a letter — directly refers to the sexual abuses suffered by Irish children and the role played by the Catholic Church.
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