Trudeau Calls for the Catholic Church to Take Responsibility for Deaths of Indigenous Children

Posted on AllSides June 4th, 2021
From The Left

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who personally asked Pope Francis to apologize to residential school survivors and their families in 2017, is asking the Catholic Church to “step up” and take responsibility for its role in residential schools after the bodies of 215 undocumented children, some as young as 3, were found buried under a former Catholic-run residential school.

People across the country should put pressure on bishops and cardinals, Trudeau told reporters on Friday. 

“It’s going to be a really important moment to make it clear that we expect the...

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