OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said WednesdayFrancis's upcoming trip to Canada remains unchanged at the moment, but the pontiff's health is an “extreme concern.”would reschedule an upcoming trip to Africa to avoid interrupting therapy he is undergoing for his knee.
His trip to the Congo had been scheduled to take place from July 2 to July 7, just weeks before he is set to travel to Canada to deliver a long-awaited apology to Indigenous people for the Catholic Church's role in running residential schools. “We're all systems go in Canada in terms of hosting, effectively, what is a head of state,” Miller said before entering a meeting of the Liberal caucus.An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend these church-run, government-funded institutions, where physical and sexual abuse, as well as neglect, were rampant.
The final report released in December 2015 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which collected testimony from thousands of survivors, called for a papal apology to take place on Canadian soil for the role played by the Catholic Church and its clergy for running these schools.Francis apologized to First Nations, Inuit and Metis delegates who travelled to the Vatican to speak to him about the matter.Miller said Wednesday that as far as he's aware,“There's no change.
A spokesman for the papal visit said last week that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is in regular touch with the Vatican about the pontiff's upcoming travel.Francis, who has recently been photographed using a wheelchair, can rest in between events.
Oh, he cancelled Congo and South Sudan but not Canada.... I offered to treat his joints but did not hear from him. My offer still on the table and it is just diet.
The pope doesn’t want to sign any cheques so he won’t come for a while.
who cares....
He'd better steer clear of Trudeau who's a walking covid petri dish.
Just gonna screenshot this for posterity. Let's hope I won't have my told you so moment and Pope shows up. I have doubts.
The virtue signaling capital of the world.
Hope he is 4th shotted for safety 🤣🤡
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