ICYMI: Pope says Indigenous people suffered 'genocide' at residential schools
The pontiff made the comment Friday to reporters on his flight from Iqaluit back to Rome following his six-day tour of Canada.
When asked if he would use the word genocide and accept that members of the church participated in genocide, Francis said yes.Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.“I asked for forgiveness for what has been done, which was genocide, and I did condemn this,” he said in Spanish through a translator.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission referred to residential schools as a form of cultural genocide when it released its final report in 2015. But since then a number of Indigenous groups have amended this to say it was genocide.Article content
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