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

Although the occasion was sombre, there was a vibrancy at Maskwa Park July 25 as hundreds of Indigenous People wore traditional regalia, ribbon skirts, and many wore orange Every Child Matters shirts. Though the sky was overcast, there was colour everywhere.

Although the occasion was sombre, there was a vibrancy at Maskwa Park July 25 as hundreds of Indigenous People wore traditional regalia, ribbon skirts, and many wore orange Every Child Matters shirts. Though the sky was overcast, there was colour everywhere.

Residential school survivors and their families are in Alberta community of Maskwacis Monday

MASKWACIS, Alberta (CNS) -- The first step of Pope Francis' 'penitential pilgrimage' to Canada involved him returning two pairs of children's moccasins. The little shoes were not among the Indigenous artifacts held in the Vatican Museums, but rather reminders that Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier of the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan had left with Pope Francis in March so he would think and pray about the children who went to residential schools and, especially, about those who never