Pope calls Canada trip a ‘penitential pilgrimage’
Published: 04:07 PM,Jul 17,2022 | EDITED : 08:07 PM,Jul 17,2022
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Pope Francis said on Sunday a visit to Canada, where he will meet Indigenous survivors of abuse committed at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, was “a penitential pilgrimage”.
“Next Sunday, God willing, I will leave for Canada’’, he said at the end of the Angelus prayer, in an apparent reference to a knee problem which caused him to postpone a trip last month to Africa.
The pontiff is expected to use his July 24-30 visit to Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit to repeat an apology he delivered to Canadian delegations who visited the Vatican in April.
“Next Sunday, God willing, I will leave for Canada’’, he said at the end of the Angelus prayer, in an apparent reference to a knee problem which caused him to postpone a trip last month to Africa.
The pontiff is expected to use his July 24-30 visit to Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit to repeat an apology he delivered to Canadian delegations who visited the Vatican in April.