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Indigenous people of Canada are blasting the pope for failing to apologize for mistreatment and deaths of native children. The pope expressed pain and sorrow but not the words, "we're sorry."  The background of the situation were Catholic-run schools to educate young indians in the ways of the so-called first world.  They were forcibly removed from their families and sent to these institutions for a "proper" education and to remove any trace of indigenous language and lifestyle.  It doesn't help that the Canadian government thought it was doing the right thing at the time and the Catholic Church was complicit in that view.  When hundreds of children die and are interred in a mass grave, it shows a lack of empathy and concern for them by the religious authorities. It shouldn't be difficult to apologize for the past but something is holding back the pope.  What it has created is a PR blackeye for the Catholic Church in Canada, one that won't be overcome for a long time, if ever.