Shaking It Off: Papal Apologies and Narratives of Exceptionalism in Canada - by Patty Krawec

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Shaking It Off: Papal Apologies and Narratives of Exceptionalism in Canada - by Patty Krawec

28 Jul 2022

An apology that Justin Trudeau says fulfilled Call to Action It absolves the church of the wrongdoings of its members, #58, while former Senator and Truth and Reconciliation which we see in the Pope’s apology this week, holding up Commission (TRC) Chair, Murray Sinclair suggests the infallible nature of the church and scapegoating some did not. [...] When we visited the grounds and committed on its watch are seen as aberrations rather than the residential school memorial which now stands there, inevitable outcomes of a structurally harmful system or a I picked up goose feathers that were scattered around and faith that demands acceptance; short of that you perish thought about my early years living in the area while the in fire. [...] It is much like the apologies he and and tikinagans; I ate walleye and other other Canadian politicians have offered: this is not who we country food at the feast; I listened to the are, we will do better. [...] of the church and the state as owners of, and authorities over, the land and people. [...] after the apology - the other narrative that I had been waiting for - the words of Sipihko, a Cree woman who Community-Led Healing spoke her language to the pope and sang a song that many mistook for the national anthem and told reporters “… About ten years ago I returned home to Lac Seul with my then I turned my back on him and said ‘hiy hiy’ and I father for the community’s annual Powwow.
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