MASKWACIS, Alberta—Pope Francis visited the website of a former residential college for
indigenous Canadian toddlers on Monday morning and time and again apologized for Catholics' position in executive-sponsored "initiatives of cultural destruction and forced assimilation" that he referred to had devastated their communities."I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil dedicated through so many Christians in opposition t the indigenous peoples," the pope noted, considered one of half a dozen methods by which he expressed sorrow or begged for pardon in the speech. He spoke to an audience of indigenous leaders, elders and former residential faculty students in addition to top Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor usual Mary Simon. His apologies drew applause and cheers a number of instances all over the speech.
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