By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Correction made in the fifth paragraph from the end. Added the word deputy to chief adjudicator. On the eve of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral, Delia Opekokew’s feelings of him remain the same today as they did when she met him in 2009. Opekokew was one of 10 members of a delegation from the Assembly of First Nations to have a private audience with Benedict in Vatican City that year. Shortly after that meeting, she wrote that the Pope had a “look of love on his face” when he blessed an Eagle Staff, and that he was “kind, serene, gracious.” “Yes, they are the same feelings specifically about the Pope himself,” Opekokew told Windspeaker.com in an exclusive interview. “The difference now,” she said,

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