Tuesday afternoon, Pope Francis will travel to Lac Ste. Anne, a holy site that attracts as many as 40,000 pilgrims each year
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In the afternoon, he’ll proceed 90 kilometres northwest to Lac Ste. Anne, a holy site that attracts as many as 40,000 pilgrims each year. Last week, Alberta Health Services issued an alert for toxic blue-green algae in the lake and warned visitors against swimming or wading. It’s unclear how the advisory will affect proceedings.Pope calls residential schools a ‘disastrous error’; meets with members of Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples
Pope Francis greets faithful outside the church after a meeting with indigenous peoples and members of the Parish Community of Sacred Heart in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada July 25, 2022.“I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples,” Pope Francis said in aIn the afternoon,where he reiterated his apology made hours earlier at Maskwacis. The congregation consisted largely, although not exclusively, of Indigenous peoples.
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