Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc chief seeks commitment from Pope to visit Kamloops residential school, issue apology

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Indigenous leaders say they will push for a papal apology for the trauma inflicted on Indigenous families by residential schools when they visit the Vatican later this month.

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, whose nation undertook work to locate potential unmarked gravesites at the Kamloops Indian Residential School last year, said “the time is now” for the leader of the Catholic Church, which ran many of the schools, to make a formal apology.

“The visit is also going to provide an opportunity for the church to demonstrate acts of contrition and live up to