VATICAN POPE CANADA

VATICAN POPE CANADA
Pope Benedict XVI gestures during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday April 29, 2009. Native Canadians attended Pope Benedict XVI general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, and were granted a private meeting where the pope expressed his concern for the acknowledged abuse and "deplorable conduct" of some church members at Canadian schools that native Canadians were forced to attend, in an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)