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<p>ROME—Pope Francis will arrive in <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/canadas-anti-vax-answer-to-january-6-is-an-indefinite-blockade-of-ottawa">Canada</a> on Sunday <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-finally-admits-some-catholic-priests-are-deplorable">to ask for atonement</a> for the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/speak-no-evil-vatican-refuses-to-talk-about-sex-abuse">hasty burial of hundreds of Indigenous children</a>—as young as 3—who died in the Catholic Church’s care from the 19th century to the 1970s. </p>
<p>The trip is a product of the 2021 discovery of an unmarked grave containing the remains of some 215 Indigenous children who died in a Catholic residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Around 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from families to be “retrained” in Christian beliefs in the 19th century in a practice that carried on for decades. </p>
<p>Among the documented practices were beatings when the children spoke their Native languages, and brainwashing to assimilate into Canadian Christian life. </p>
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The trip is a product of the 2021 discovery of an unmarked grave containing the remains of some 215 Indigenous children who died in a Catholic residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Around 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from families to be “retrained” in Christian beliefs in the 19th century in a practice that carried on for decades.
Among the documented practices were beatings when the children spoke their Native languages, and brainwashing to assimilate into Canadian Christian life.
