Where have you gone, Vin Scully? A nation turns its lonely ear to you.

Gerry Desnomie, 74, suffered verbal, emotional and sexual abuse in a church-run residential school. He welcomed the pope’s apology in Canada—but says three points were missing.

“It was therefore a penitential pilgrimage,” Pope Francis said at today’s general audience. “There were many joyful moments, but the overall meaning and tone was reflection, repentance and reconciliation.”

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James Martin, S.J.

“We are at a different place than we were a week ago in the church’s walk with Indigenous Peoples, a better place.”

Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan, where he could meet with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has supported Moscow’s war in Ukraine.