Give pope message on school second chance, Canadian cardinal says


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  • Monday, 07 Jun 2021

FILE PHOTO: A feather blows in the wind on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, after the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada June 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier

ROME (Reuters) - Canadians disappointed that Pope Francis did not apologise for the Catholic Church's role in a scandal surrounding a former school for indigenous students should give his message "a second chance" because his sorrow and shock are sincere, a Canadian cardinal said.

Michael Czerny, one of two Vatican-based Canadian cardinals, spoke in an interview with Reuters a day after the pope said he was pained by the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Indian Residential School in the town of Kamloops in the Western Canadian province of British Columbia.

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