Canadian bishops say they’ll follow pope’s example with Indigenous
Canada’s bishops wound up their first in-person meetings in three years with discussion of concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians.
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by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Canadians, Inuit, Métis people, News, Reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Canada’s bishops wound up their first in-person meetings in three years with discussion of concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, mass shooting, News | 0 |
The Catholic bishops of Saskatchewan offered prayers for everyone affected by the deadly stabbing rampage that left 12 dead — including the two suspected killers — and at least 18 injured.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News | 0 |
The Canadian government raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill Monday as a way to honor Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the country’s notorious residential schools.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |
At the end of his six-day visit to Canada, Pope Francis, sitting in a wheelchair, said goodbye to Chief Wilton Littlechild, also sitting in a wheelchair.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, lead, Native Americans, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |
The legacy of residential schools has been handed down to today’s Native Americans.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, Church History, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, lead, Native Americans, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada’s national shrine and came face-to-face with a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples: to rescind the papal decrees underpinning the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Jerusalem, lead, Native Americans, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada, Pope John Paul II, Western Wall | 0 |
Then as now, it was important not only that the pope apologize, but that he do it in a specific place – the remains of the Jerusalem temple for John Paul, and the site of a former residential school in Canada for Francis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 28, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Justin Trudeau, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |
The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’s apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 27, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |
It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 26, 2022 | Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, lead, Native Americans, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |
Survivors of Canada’s residential school system described Pope Francis’s apology yesterday as historic and “bittersweet,” but said that the highly anticipated mea culpa will only be meaningful if it’s followed by concrete action.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, Church in the Americas, First Nations, indigenous communities, News, papal apology | 0 |
To this day, Flo Buffalo doesn’t drink milk — not since two nuns force-fed her the sour milk she had refused at the Catholic-run Ermineskin Indian Residential School for Indigenous children that she attended in the 1960s.
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