The Pope flies to Canada to meet the natives. The wheelchair salute at Edmonton Airport

Edmonton – Pope Francis landed in Edmonton, the first stage of his six days in Canada, a penitential journey to meet native communities harassed in the past also by the Catholic Church by the policies of cultural assimilation. And at the moment of the greeting with the Canadian authorities who welcomed him at the airport, he remained seated in a wheelchair due to a knee pain that has gripped him for weeks.