"I'’s a start (...) that he recognizes, acknowledges us, the pain that we went through, the horrors, the sadness," says Irene Liening, a survivor of a residential school, after Pope Francis apologized for the evil inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada during an address near the site of the former Ermineskin residential school in Maskwacis. "It’s a sign of hopefulness, of healing, of reconciliation," she adds.

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