On July 24, 2022, Pope Francis, weakened by knee pain, is eagerly awaited in Canada to evoke a dark chapter: between the end of the 19th century and the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous children were forcibly recruited into more than 130 boarding schools, subsidized by the state, but mostly administered by the Catholic Church. Up to 6,000 children died there. After a prayer, Pope Francis asks“pardon” three times, “with shame and clarity”. “No one should forget what happened in residential schools, and we all need to make sure it never happens again.”