“I’ve been waiting for this moment”, confides Francois, who very much wanted this trip to Canada. By Friday evening, the 85-year-old Pope will fulfill all the requirements of the program against all odds. Despite this capricious health that immobilizes him in a wheelchair.
After twenty hours of rest after his arrival on Sunday, an unprecedented bracket compared to his previous papal trips, the Pope, rather tired, did begin his visit on Monday morning, a hundred kilometers south of Edmonton, the Alberta capital. The town of Maskwacis, literally “bear hills”. It is the heart of Ancestral Indian Territory, home to the Great Four Nations of Western Canada: Ermineskin Cree Nation, Louis Bull Tribe, Montana First Nation, Samson Cree Nation. It is their annual meeting place. In front of their traditional chiefs with feather crowns, he uttered the word “sorry” six times.
“I am here because the first…
Source: Le Figaro
