Catholic church

Canada agreed to "forever discharge" Catholic entities from their promise to raise $25 million for residential school survivors and also picked up their legal bill, a final release document shows.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says a lack of action would be the worst thing to follow an apology for residential schools as Pope Francis reflects on his historic journey to Canada.

A New Democrat member of Parliament said on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, she hopes all of her colleagues will recognize the residential schools system as genocide, now that Pope Francis has used the term.

For the first time since the start of a Canadian tour highlighted by apologies for the Catholic Church's role in Indigenous residential schools, Pope Francis on Thursday, July 28, 2022, acknowledged sexual abuse inflicted on "minors and vulnerable people."