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As a life-long devotee of little Switzerland, I was particularly excited that my Globus escorted coach tour had threaded the Swiss capital into its enchant

The dedication is set for Sept. 6 at the building, which is on the corner of Kimbrough Avenue and Cherry Street.

At the end of his six-day visit to Canada, Pope Francis, sitting in a wheelchair, said goodbye to Chief Wilton Littlechild, also sitting in a wheelchair. Littlechild, a 78-year-old lawyer, survivor of abuse in a residential school and former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, had spent decades advocating for the rights of First Nation, Métis and Inuit people and had lobbied hard for Pope Francis to come to Canada to apologize in person for the Catholic Church's complicity in abusing children, breaking up families and suppressing Indigenous language and culture. A...

MASKWACIS, Alberta (CNS) -- The words 'I am sorry' are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Muskwa, or Bear Park, Powwow Grounds. 'It's just very powerful,' Ward told The Catholic Register, Toronto-based newspaper,  after Pope Francis finished delivering his historic apology on Indigenous land for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools and other wrongs done on the church's behalf. 'For me, it's the h

Addressing thousands in Maskwacis, Pope Francis gave a formal apology for the church’s role in Canada’s residential schools