Most of the more than 500 Indian boarding schools were run by the U.S. government, but the Catholic Church operated more than ...

Dozens of these schools were run by the Catholic Church or its… For more than a century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools. Those schools ...

Pope Francis expressed "sorrow, indignation and shame" for the actions of many members of the Roman Catholic Church, who ran and operated majority of residential schools in Canada. The 85-year-old ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged the Catholic Church to "take responsibility" for its role in indigenous residential schools. The remains of 215 children were found buried in one ...

During a trip to Canada last year, Catholic Pope Francis personally apologized for the horrors committed by Catholic Church run indigenous residential schools.

U.S. Catholic bishops apologized Friday for the Catholic Church's part in fostering "a history of trauma" on Indigenous children at church-run boarding schools where priests sexually abused students.