Pope Francis In Canada Penitential Pilgrimage Ends In Iqaluit Nunavut Amid Criticism
Comment IQALUIT, Nunavut — In the final stop on a penitential pilgrimage that drew mixed reviews from the indigenous people he came to see, Pope Francis apologized again Friday to survivors of Canada’s residential schools and said it was his hope to “shed light to what happened and move beyond this dark past.” The city of Iqaluit, built on permafrost, marked a fitting end to a somber, one-of-a-kind papal trip aimed primarily at atonement for the cruelty of government-funded schools, most of which were run by Catholic entities....