Pope heads to Canada on 'penitential pilgrimage' for indigenous abuse

Pope Francis is travelling to Canada for a chance to personally apologise to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential Catholic Church schools

Following a visit to Quebec City from July 27-29, Pope Francis will end his trip in Iqaluit, home to the largest Inuit population in Canada, where he will meet with former residential school students.

The head of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics will be met at Edmonton's international airport by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the flight from Rome on Sunday. Francis' Canada visit — which he has called a "penitential pilgrimage" of "healing and reconciliation" — is primarily to apologise to survivors for the Church's role in the scandal that a national truth and reconciliation commission has called "cultural genocide".

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