No papal apology in Canada Indigenous abuses ‘shameful’: Official

The comments follow the discovery of unmarked graves of 215 children at a boarding school that had been run by the Catholic Church.

Canada’s Indigenous services minister has said it is “shameful” that the Pope has never formally apologised for abuses at the country’s Catholic-run Indigenous residential schools, which he termed “labour camps”. Marc Miller’s comments on Wednesday followed the recent discovery of unmarked graves of 215 children in the city of Kamloops at one of 139 boarding schools set up a century ago to forcibly assimilate Canada’s Indigenous peoples. “I do, I do,” the minister told a news conference when asked if he supports growing Indigenous calls for a papal apology that date back to even before a 2015 truth and reconciliation commission report.