‘Without you, we are the less. We are inadequate’: Archbishop of Canterbury visits P.A.
For the second straight day, Most Rev. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, profusely apologized to residential school survivors, and vowed to collaborate to make sure their voices are heard and never forgotten.
But Welby took it a step further on Sunday at the Prince Albert Exhibition ground hall, while speaking in front of survivors, and Chiefs of the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC).
After some survivors talked about being abandoned by the Anglican churches they served because they were Indigenous, Welby said that act was against everything the Anglican Church is about.
“Without Indigenous people’s full participation of the church, the church is not fully the church of Christ. Without you, we are the less. We are inadequate,” Welby said, while holding the eagle feather he was gifted on Saturday at James Smith Cree Nation. “The communion is impoverished and we deny the reality of God. There is more to learn than I can say.”