Father Michael Kwiatkowski wiped tears from his eyes as he watched Pope Francis apologize to Indigenous residential school survivors on Monday.
“One thing that’s struck to my heart, and I think it would strike to the heart of all the parishioners here, here is how families were, you know, taken apart,” he said.
Kwiatkowski heads the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, an established community in Winnipeg’s north end.
He said his parishioners may be preoccupied with the war in Ukraine, but they still want to be a part of this journey to reconciliation.
It’s a sentiment many non-Indigenous Catholics are expressing during the Pope’s pilgrimage
