Pope keep on Apologising – Church keep on Abusing!

published on May 4, 2009

  Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his sorrow that generations of aboriginal children were abused at some Catholic boarding schools in Canada.

The Pope was speaking after a private meeting at the Vatican with an aboriginal leader and Canadian bishops.

From the late 19th Century until the 1970s, some 150,000 children were forcibly sent to church-run schools in an effort to assimilate them.

Many of the children suffered physical and sexual abuse.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/8026429.stm

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