Pope makes final Canadian stop in Nunavut

and they would have chipped it into shape this collect is one of alexina kubler's most sentimental pieces from her childhood the traditional inuit oil lamp made of soapstone belonged to her mother kublu brought it with her when she spoke to pope francis today telling him that she and her five siblings had attended residential school and how the legacy of those schools damaged not only children but also parents i'm going to talk about my mother's conduct because this good luck is an epitome of the good luck of all those mothers who like my mother would just at times just sit there just staring at the flame kublu joined about a hundred people including survivors inside nekazuk school for a private meeting with pope francis [Music] various inuit artists then performed for the pope before he addressed the thousands who came out for this historic visit on inuit nunengat to hear him say sorry in inuktitut mamiyana gradua you have come to love these places to respect cherish and enhance as respect for the elderly genuine fraternity and care for the environment tanya tungillik's late father marius tungilik was forced to go to residential school she met with the pope on his behalf he would have wanted justice he would have wanted the pope to apologize for the the church's role in the residential schools and for hiding the the clergy knowing what they had done pope francis was given a traditional inuit drum by a survivor his stop in khaloit lasted only a few hours but many here hope that in the spirit of reconciliation there will be action hopefully opening up the beginning of something it's not the end this is the beginning of hopefully helping our people to fully recover from the horrific so juanita the pope um heard from survivors today but very specific case a fugitive oblate priest who is accused of sexually assaulting uh little ones in in the 60s and 70s what more can you tell us about that that's right adrian tanya to malik who you saw in our piece her father was an alleged victim of that priest johannes revoir and actually he was the first to raise the alarm that uh revoir had these alleged crimes going on now river is 92 years old he lives in france currently and this week the canadian government announced that they have asked that he be extradited to canada to face justice but that is unlikely to happen because there is no extradition treaty now today survivor peter ernest also asked that the pope intervene and press for river's return to canada as well adrian inuit canatami president natan obed he made the same appeal last march in rome all right we'll keep watching this juanita thanks you and your team for all of your work on this as always

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Length: 3min 53sec (233 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2022