Pope to meet Indigenous survivors during Canada 'pilgrimage'

Pope Francis will leave for Canada on Sunday for a historic visit where he is expected to personally apologize for the horrors of Catholic Church-run Indigenous residential schools.

The pontiff has called his week long visit a “penitential pilgrimage” of “healing and reconciliation” to seek forgiveness on Canadian soil for the “evil” done to Native peoples by Catholic missionaries.

In the decades spanning from late 1800s to the 1990s, nearly 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children…