Standing outside of the Vatican on Friday, Adrian N. Gunner wanted to call his grandparents.
As the Quebec Cree Youth Grand Chief, Gunner had gone to Rome to meet with representatives of the Roman Catholic Church. Both his grandfather and grandmother had been forced to attend the Mohawk Institute Indian residential school in Brantford, Ont.
He said he hadn’t expected the head of the church to acknowledge the suffering and abuse that happened there.
“I was astonished,” said Gunner in an interview with CBC Montreal’s Daybreak, calling in from St. Peter’s Square.
“I’m at a loss for words, but I feel like today is
