Cape Breton University has issued a public apology for remarks a Roman Catholic priest made about residential schools during a recent speech to a graduating class. The university, based in Sydney, N.S., says Rev. Norman MacPhee was telling graduates about a school in Honduras that he helped establish when he described Fatima House as a “residential school.” Speaking during a convocation ceremony last Thursday, the 91-year-old Cape Breton priest followed up by saying, “Residential schools don’t get good press, but this one gets very good press in Honduras.” Later in the day, the university responded with a statement saying the priest had good intentions, but it noted that references to residential schools carry a “deeply painful legacy” for Indigenous people in Canada. The university had invited MacPhee to the ceremony…
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