'I am sorry': Canadian Indigenous react to papal apology
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
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