Warning: This story discusses details of abuse in residential schools.
It won’t be easy for Piita Irniq, a residential school survivor, to meet Pope Francis in Iqaluit next week.
“It’s going to be scary,” said Irniq, who was abused by a nun at the age of 11 as a student at the school in Chesterfield Inlet in what is now Nunavut.
“It’s going to be awesome to see the Pope because he was made out to be the very authority of the Roman Catholic Church. A lot of things will be going through my mind.”
He’ll welcome Pope Francis. But Irniq, on behalf of all
