In imploring U.S.
lawmakers to show compassion to refugees, Pope Francis once again
acknowledged the brutal treatment of the Indigenous peoples in the
settlement of North America. But the Catholic pontiff did not agree to a request from Canadian and
American native leaders to meet during Francis’s first visit to the
United States this week.
And he proceeded to canonize a Catholic missionary whose elevation to sainthood was strongly opposed by many First Nations. “We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners,
because most of us were once foreigners,” Francis said in his speech at
the U.S. capitol on Thursday.https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/popes-us-apology-rings-hollow-for-north-175512569.html