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Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform March 31 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic 2022 apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of helping operate such schools. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform March 31 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican