The Pope’s mea culpa in Canada: “I ask forgiveness from the indigenous, the Church was complicit in the abuses”

He wanted at all costs to be here, for the first time Pope Francis on Canadian soil for a mea culpa in front of the aborigines of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit populations. About seventy kilometers south of the city of Edmonton, in the Maskwacis area, in central Alberta – the “bear hills” in Cree language – while a thin rain seems to want to adapt to the “penitential” character