Pope Francis arrived in Canada on Sunday to apologize for the Catholic church’s role in abusing Indigenous people in residential schools. NBC News’ Anne Thompson sat down with three survivors, one of whom said the apology “probably would have meant more to these people that are not here. They are the ones that suffered more than I did.” Over a century, 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend the schools. 6,000 died. The Catholic church ran most of the schools in Canada as well as some of the 400 schools for Native Americans in the U.S. » Subscribe to NBC News:
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Smh shame in them
It's well documented that Romans/Greeks are from the bloodline of Esau, they're our enemies. We so-called Native Americans come from the bloodline of Jacob(Israel) PROOF- Artifacts 1 Chief Joseph's Assyrian Tablet 2 Newark Holy Stones 3 Los Lunas Mystery Stone 4 Baal Stone in New Hampshire 5 Sherbrooke Stones in Quebec. Numbers 15:38: proves the Israelites wore fringes/ribbons and Exodus 28:33: shows they wore bells.
Lock him up!
Shame on Catholic churches for generations and generations abused all children from all nations and its people in the name of god and all its goodness, yet continue abuses to this day. That is why I don't believe or accept church teachings and any organize religions. All lies…just look around the world for the pains and destructions they cause. I can pray to my own god without this crap. Just how many more apoligies can a pope make. Shame to all followers of false teachings. Believe in yourself. Bless to all who have suffered.
How many think the Spanish crown should apologize for hiring Columbus?
Cancel the pope and catholicism. One of the most evil organizations in the world. Forced conversion, execution of dissenters, silencing those that disagreed. They single handedly manipulated the world for the last 1600+ years and that is not a conspiracy; their history is riddled with terrible deeds and manipulation of information.
honor the treaties also….
Britain killed 4 million Indians in Bengal in 1943 by imposing a famine
Britain stole $45 Trillion from India over 200 years of rule
Let me know when he comes to the Divided, I mean the United States and apologizes for the exact same thing they did here to the indigenous children. They separated millions of children from their parents here too, sent them to concentration camp schools, cut their hair, took their culture and language, forced them to denounce their religion, and killed many of them just luke they did in Canada and Australia. So please let me know when he goes to the US and Australia to apologize.
What of bunch of BS this is. Trudeau is an kisser. The liberal government funded this. If the Pope is such a holy man why is in a wheel chair. There's nothing our government or the church can ever do to make this wrong right. As a young boy I was molested. I had to make the choice …do I let this ruin my life or do I put everything I have into this and become the man I was intended to be.
The Romish Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christ-like garments; but SHE IS UNCHANGED. Every principle of popery that existed in past ages exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none deceive themselves…Her spirit is no less cruel and despotic now than when she crushed out human liberty, and slew the saints of the Most High – GC 570.3
Pope, time to go home. Get caught then apologized. No kidding!!
Apologizing is just speaking words.
I'd like to see actions taken to show they're sorry! It's way long overdue!
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Omg he so fake
Children abused, sexually molested and murdered by the thousands, hundreds of thousands if all of them are counted. The Pope comes to town to beg for forgiveness even though his people are doing it right now to someone, somewhere. All in the name of some invisible sky fairy so they can take money from believers of the sly fairy and stick it into their bank. If this was any other group, there would be investigations and calls for death sentences. They are guilty of lying, stealing and murder but nothing will be done to them, they will continue their crime spree. So apology not accepted ever.
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues. 5 For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind.
I hope no one is expecting the pope to do the "Canadian" thing and hand out blank cheques for "intergenerational suffering". He is no pushover (sic Harper….Trudeau). Beyond an apology, people will need to show that financial aid, (from the RC church) is aiding the cause of the indigenous. The recent billions of Canadian govt.$$ (largely unaudited…due to indigenous leaders wanting no strings attached lol) have done absolutely nothing for the lowest of indigenous people. This pope is no fool (Harper….Trudeau etc)
Catholic Church abused thousands?
Wow, this has never happened before has it. But hey, keep donating to the church..
While the paved street was freshly done in time for the Pope, to be wheeled on. Then you got Trudeau sitting there, promised clean water to these people… still nothing.
Whatever 🤪
Honestly it's too late for an apology.
He should visit Artur Pawlowski the oppressed Christian Pastor who just won his religious freedom case against the current Canadian government!
The pope mentioned how many children suffered physical, psychological , spiritual , and verbal abuse , BUT HE DID NOT MENTION THE SEXUAL ABUSE , WHY?
“Now the Pope begins an apology tour for the sins of the church” that’s classic
The Pope came to Canada to apologize for the genocide perpetrated against children of the first immigrants to present Canada; that mostly occurred in Roman Catholic white supremacist indoctrination camps. F-an apology; give back the land and wealth the Catholic aquired during the imperialist colonization of present day Canada.
The Catholic Church owned slaves and traded in slaves. The Catholic Church is the NUMBER ONE group of pedophiles and child rapists in world history. The Catholic Church has amassed it's enormous wealth off the blood, sweet and lives of millions of people of color around the world. The Catholic Bible and Christian Bible read like an operational manual with instructions and guidelines for the enslavement of humans, including innocent children and babies…Old and New Testaments.
This pope's apology is synonymous with someone breaking into someone's home; stealing all the money and valuable items; and murdering most of the family. Then after getting rich off the genocide and theft, says to the descendants of the victims; "Oh I'm sorry for what happened, here is a charitable donation that shows you how much we and Jesus/God/HolySpirit really loves you. BUT!, we are keeping your home and not compensating you with the millions of dollars (in the Catholic Churches case billions/ trillions/zillions etc… of dollars) we accumulated from stealing your ancestors home and money.
Excerpt from sourced article: https://upstanderproject.org/learn/guides-and-resources/first-light/doctrine-of-discovery
The Doctrine of Discovery established a spiritual, political, and legal justification for colonization and seizure of land not inhabited by Christians. Foundational elements of the Doctrine of Discovery can be found in a series of papal bulls, or decrees, beginning in the 1100s, which included sanctions, enforcements, authorizations, explusions, admonishments, excommunications, denunciations, and expressions of territorial sovereignty for Christian monarchs supported by the Catholic Church. Two papal bulls, in particular, stand out: (1) Pope Nicholas V issued "Romanus Pontifex" in 1455, granting the Portuguese a monopoly of trade with Africa and authorizing the enslavement of local people; (2) Pope Alexander VI issued the Papal Bull “Inter Caetera” in 1493 to justify Christian European explorers’ claims on land and waterways they allegedly discovered, and promote Christian domination and superiority, and has been applied in Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Americas.
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The Catholic Church through it's sanctioning and participation has brought nothing but genocide and destruction to the world…worse than Hitler and the Nazis ever did. The biggest difference is Hitler and the Nazis were stopped, while the Catholic Church and its European imperialist colonizing war criminal associates, got away with it…AND CONTINUE TO GET AWAY AND BENEFIT FINANCIALLY FROM IT.
No one wearing masks
Sanctioned by the government. I was abused by 7 different teachers and 1 janitor before I got out of grade 7 and quit. It was no catholic school. I'm a blue eyed squarehead.
move to a reservation and get out of our Italy!
My God, these people are beyond evil but then again I don't think they are people. Two thousand years since they've developed a way to hide their debauchery in he name of a religion espousing love yet they have inflicted theft of lands countless bloodshed and cruelty upon humanity. I don't subscribe to any religion but for the life of me I can't understand anyone being affiliated with that filth called the Catholic Church.
When is the Archbishop of Canterbury going to show? They had twice as many of these schools as the Catholics did!
"It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed."
– Nietzsche
6 And the Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Hear the words of this [solemn] covenant and do them. 7 For I solemnly warned your fathers at the time that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning them persistently, saying, “Obey My voice.” 8 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear [to listen to Me], but everyone walked in the stubborn way of his [own] evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all [the suffering threatened in] the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.’”
9 Then the Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the people of Jerusalem. 10 They have returned to the wickedness of their ancestors who refused to hear My words; they have followed other gods [in order] to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My [solemn] covenant which I made with their fathers.” 11 Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold I am bringing disaster and suffering on them which they will not be able to escape; though they cry to Me, I will not listen to them. 12 Then the cities of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry to the [man-made] gods to whom they burn incense, but they cannot save them in the time of their disaster. 13 For [as many as] the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah; and [as many as] the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.
14 “Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I shall not listen when they cry to Me in the time of their disaster.
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“What right has My beloved [to be] in My house
When she has done many vile things and acted treacherously [over and over again]?
Can vows and the meat of your sacrifices remove your wickedness from you and cancel the consequences of your sin,
So that you can [escape your judgment and] rejoice?”
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The Lord [acknowledged you once as worthy and] called your name,
“A green olive tree, fair and beautiful in fruit and form”;
But with the roar of a great tempest
He has set fire to it,
And its branches are worthless.(A)
17 For the Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil and horror against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me [to anger] by offering sacrifices and burning incense to Baal.
Another politician. That apology was an attempt at lighting both ends of the candle. I am sorry, BUT, it was the LOCALS, not the church itself… AS IF!!! The CATHOLIC CHURCH is a well-greased, ultra-centralized corporation that has had almost two THOUSAND years to learn how to function and survive in changing societies. That "country" also has an intelligence-gathering arm that is just as good as Mossad and knows what everybody is doing at all times.
What they are REALLY GOOD at, is protecting their own. Be they Pedophiles, violent and belittling, or drunk abusers, they are systematically protected and hidden from prosecution.
I WANT the Catholic Church to have to start selling some of those invaluable treasures that they accumulated for selling access to paradise for over millennias, to the WORST humans around, that just happened to be rich and powerful.
We threw them OUT of our lives in Quebec. The Residential schools were the First Nation part of the big picture. The Orphanages, Reform schools, and psych wards run by the church were the other side of the picture. One that NOBODY talks about. Duplessis and the Church leader had the whole place under their thumb until we had a "Quiet Revolution" in the 1960s, and completely overhauled our society in just a few years of sudden sanity.
The Church, throughout its existence, has been responsible for WAY more death and hardship than happiness. I just do NOT get the appeal of being part of an ancient and never proven cult. the MESSAGE is nice, but the HUMANS delivering it are NOT better than anyone, or worthy of so much respect.
It's like the mental cleavage between common sense & science VS. blind belief and obedience to empty words. In 2022, with everything we discovered that contradicts large parts of the bible, it's almost insane.
NBC headline calls it abuse, but I call it murder. The pope is a good man and this cannot fall on him.
Catholic Abusers, an institution of sexual and physical abuse. Wait till the natives come for the money. The natives always come for the money. The Church should be abolished.
Poor man! He just a Scapegoat! Who is the BIG Boss in behind?!?
What about us in Louisiana