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THE LESSONS OF PENITENCE

THE LESSONS OF PENITENCE

“I humbly beg for­give­ness for the evil com­mit­ted by so many Chris­tians against the Indige­nous peoples.”
That sin­cere, if long-over­due apol­o­gy by Pope Fran­cis for the Catholic church’s role in the iniq­ui­ties of Canada’s res­i­den­tial schools, was wel­comed by many and con­sid­ered not suf­fi­cient by oth­ers. Be that as it may, his pen­i­tence car­ries a les­son for sec­u­lar zealots.Read the rest