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Pope’s apology to Indigenous people in Canada reverberates in archdiocese

As Pope Francis apologized to Indigenous people in Canada for the role Catholics played in uprooting lives, spiritualities and cultures through that country’s residential schools, his words reverberated among Native Americans paying close attention in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

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Gitchitwaa Kateri parishioners reclaim Ojibwe language through hymn translation

Holding a wooden flute, Larry Martin stood during Mass July 10 and welcomed the congregation to join the responsorial psalm. He began: “Aw ge-chi-twaaa-wen-daa-go-zid, Gi-gi-zhe-ma-ni-doo-mi-nann.”

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Gitchitwaa Kateri parishioners reclaim Ojibwe language through hymn translation

Holding a wooden flute, Larry Martin stood during Mass July 10 and welcomed the congregation to join the responsorial psalm. He began: “Aw ge-chi-twaaa-wen-daa-go-zid, Gi-gi-zhe-ma-ni-doo-mi-nann.”

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Minnesota to host 2023 national conference focused on Indigenous people

The Catholic Church has accompanied the Indigenous people “since the very beginning,” said Shawn Phillips, director/pastoral minister of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ Office of Indian Ministry and at Gichitwaa Kateri in Minneapolis. Fourteen Franciscan missionaries accompanied Cortez on his journey to conquer Mexico, he said, but humans wandered from the path of bringing faith to the New World.

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