SAINTE-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRÉ, Canada: Indigenous women briefly protested as Pope Francis celebrated mass during his visit to Canada on Thursday (Friday in Manila), demanding that he retract centuries-old Church doctrine that empowered Europeans to colonize non-Christian native lands.
The brief incident at the shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec province — North America's oldest Catholic shrine — came as the 85-year-old pontiff attempts to reset the Church's fraught relationship with Indigenous people.
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