Pope Francis apologizes for Canada school policy | USA TODAY

Pope Francis issued a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools.

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In the first event of his weeklong "penitential pilgrimage," Francis traveled to the lands of four Cree nations to pray at a cemetery and then deliver the long-sought apology at nearby powow ceremonial grounds. Four chiefs escorted the pontiff in a wheelchair to the site near the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School, and presented him with a feathered headdress after he spoke.

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