Category: Indigenous people

Canadian bishops say they’ll follow pope’s example with Indigenous

by bcadmin | Oct 9, 2022 | canadian bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Indigenous people, News, papal trip, Pope Francis | 0 |

Canada’s bishops wound up their first in-person meetings in three years with discussion of concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians.

Parishioners reclaim Ojibwe language through hymn translation

by bcadmin | Sep 4, 2022 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Indigenous people, News | 0 |

Holding a wooden flute, Larry Martin stood during a recent Mass and welcomed the congregation to join the responsorial psalm.

Pope in Canada prays for healing for ‘terrible’ colonization

by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, First Nations, Indigenous people, lead, Native Americans, News, Papal travel, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |

Pope Francis prayed for healing Tuesday from the “terrible effects of colonization” as he led a pilgrimage to a Canadian lake that has been known to Native peoples for centuries as a sacred place of healing.

Indigenous and Catholic: One can proudly be both, pope says

by bcadmin | Jul 26, 2022 | Canada, Canadian residential schools, Featured, First Nation, Indigenous people, Inuit, Maskwacis, Métis, News, residential schools, U.S. & World News | 0 |

While presented as missionary work, the operation of residential schools by Catholics in Canada was actually an attempt to impose European culture on Canada’s Indigenous people, Pope Francis said.

Pope heads to Canada as Indigenous groups seek full apology

by bcadmin | Jul 24, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, Church in the Americas, Indigenous people, News, Pope Francis | 0 |

Pope Francis began a fraught visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools.

Pope’s Indigenous tour signals a rethink of mission legacy

by bcadmin | Jul 24, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, Church in the Americas, Indigenous people, News, papal apology | 0 |

Pope Francis’ trip to Canada to apologize for the horrors of church-run Indigenous residential schools marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church’s missionary legacy.

Advocates renew calls for clemency for imprisoned Native American activist

by bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Indigenous people, Native Americans, News, Prisoners | 0 |

At the heart of Pope Francis’ “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada July 24-29 is the pursuit of reconciliation with Indigenous people, which is just as relevant in the United States.

Pope seeks prayers for his ‘penitential’ Canadian pilgrimage

by bcadmin | Jul 17, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, Indigenous people, News, papal trip, Sunday Angelus, Vatican | 0 |

Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers to accompany him on what he called his “penitential” pilgrimage to Canada to apologize to Indigenous groups for abuses inflicted by the Catholic church.

Pope’s Canada trip: Beginning and ending with ‘sorry’

by bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Indigenous people, News, papal apology, papal trip | 0 |

Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness.

Native peoples join Catholics in long search for boarding school details

by bcadmin | May 28, 2022 | canadian bishops, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the Americas, Indigenous people, Native Americans, News, Racism | 0 |

Native American tribal representatives are partnering with Catholic dioceses and religious congregations in uncovering vast amounts of information about the church’s role in operating residential schools.

Religious accompany Brazil’s Indigenous as Supreme Court considers case

by bcadmin | Sep 21, 2021 | Brasilia, Brazil, Catholic religious leaders, Indigenous land rights, Indigenous people, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

An estimated 6,000 Indigenous people, along with Catholic religious leaders, camped in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, for a more than a month, hoping to convince the country’s Supreme Court to reject a bid to strip Indigenous land rights.

Native American school confronts history, both positive and negative

by bcadmin | Aug 21, 2021 | Abuse, Church in the U.S., Church in the US, government, healing, Indigenous people, Jesuit, lead, News | 0 |

When Maka Black Elk attended the Red Cloud Indian School he remembers a friend relaying a story from her grandmother that when she attended the school a Jesuit priest would come to the dormitory at night and escort one of the girls somewhere else.