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Gilda Soosay, president of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Parish Council in Maskwacis, is pictured at the church, where worshippers eagerly await the arrival of Pope Francis, on the Ermineskin 138 reserve in Maskwacis, Alberta, June 7, 2022. - For decades, trauma has lingered in the tiny Indigenous Canadian community of Maskwacis. But some hope to finally find a degree of closure during a visit by Pope Francis to apologize for the Church's role in a century of abuse. The pontiff will stop in the community of 19,000 people some 62 miles (100 kilometers) north of Edmonton, Alberta, on July 25, to visit the site of one of the state boarding schools run by churches where Indigenous children were once forcibly sequestered. (Photo by Cole Burston / AFP) (Photo by COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)