Category: Pope in Canada

Courage, resilience: Trip shows tenacity of Canada’s Indigenous and pope

by 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.

Pope heads to Nunavut to apologize at end of Canadian tour

by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Associated Press, indigenous communities, News, papal trip, Pope in Canada | 0 |

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic on Friday to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the “evil” of Canada’s residential schools.

Pope: Canadian residential schools were cultural ‘genocide’

by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, Genocide, News, Papal plane, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |

Pope Francis agreed Saturday that the attempt to eliminate Indigenous culture in Canada through a church-run residential school system amounted to a cultural “genocide.”

After grueling Canada trip, Pope acknowledges limits and hints of future resignation

by bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Canada, Kazakhstan, lead, News, papal resignation, Papal travel, Pope in Canada, Ukraine | 0 |

“I don’t think I can go with the same pace of the trips as before. I think at my age and with this limitation, I have to save [my energies up] a bit to be able to serve the Church or, on the contrary, think about the possibility of stepping aside.”

Despite papal apology, some Native Americans find it hard to forgive

by 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.

Pope in Quebec praises role of women in healing process

by bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Canada, indigenous communities, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha | 0 |

Pope Francis on his last day in Quebec said his meetings with Indigenous Peoples left a deep impression, and he praised the role that several highly venerated women saints have played in the process of healing and reconciliation.

Pope in Canada apologizes for ‘evil’ of sex abuse

by bcadmin | Jul 29, 2022 | Canada, canadian bishops, clerical sexual abuse, indigenous communities, lead, News, papal apology, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |

Pope Francis Thursday asked forgiveness for the sexual abuse of children at Church-run residential schools in Canada and vowed “never again,” building on an earlier historic apology made the day after arriving in Canada.

‘Rescind the Doctrine’ protest greets pope in Canada

by 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.”

Parallels between Pope Francis in Canada and John Paul II in Jerusalem

by 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.

In Canada, pope says Church’s failures are not the end of the story

by bcadmin | Jul 28, 2022 | Canada, indigenous communities, lead, News, Papal travel, papal trip, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |

Continuing his effort to reconcile with indigenous communities in Canada, Pope Francis Thursday told Catholics in Quebec that the Church must accept its own past and move forward with humility in order for true healing to happen.

Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city

by bcadmin | Jul 28, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |

In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed farther north than Iqaluit, capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut. On Friday, it will be the final stop of his somber six-day visit to Canada.

Canada says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough

by 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.