TVLine Items: Church’s Fox Comedy, Cherish the Day Renewed and More

Thomas Haden Church is looking to make Texas his TV home: The Divorce vet will star in and executive-produce The Texanist, a multi-camera comedy in development at Fox, TVLine has learned. Inspired by the long-running Texas Monthly column, the potential series follows an opinionated Austin-area radio show host named Dave (played by Church). He “calls […]

Canada’s Trudeau asks Pope to apologize for Catholic Church’s abuse of indigenous children

Published time: 30 May, 2017 04:32 Edited time: 30 May, 2017 04:34 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize for decades of abuse suffered by indigenous children in schools run by the Catholic Church. Canada’s “residential schools” system was set up in the late 19th century to assimilate […]

Justin Trudeau invited Pope Francis to Canada to apologize for the Church’s treatment of aboriginal children

ROME (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize to indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s treatment of aboriginal children in schools it ran there. Starting in the late 19th century, about 30 percent of children of Canada’s native peoples, or about 150,000 children, were placed […]