QUEBEC CITY — Pope Francis travels on Wednesday to Quebec for meetings with Canada’s political leadership, a mostly political pause from the main purpose of…
Francis leaves Edmonton, Alberta, for Quebec’s capital city and goes directly from the airport to the Citadelle de Quebec, the largest British fortress built in North America.
There Francis will meet Simon, who is the first indigenous person to serve as governor general. He then holds an official meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has made reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous peoples one of his political priorities. On Tuesday, the pope presided over an open-air Mass in a football stadium while seated because of a knee ailment. Later, he visited Lac Ste. Anne, a pilgrimage site popular with both indigenous Canadian Catholics and those of European origin.
During his first full day in Canada on Monday, the pope traveled to the town of Maskwacis, site of two former schools, and issued a historic apology that called the Church’s role in the schools, and the forced cultural assimilation they attempted, a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.”
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