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Indigenous performer Danielle Migwans attends a march on Canada Day in Toronto on July 1, 2021, after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the grounds of two former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada. More than two dozen Indigenous delegates, accompanied by a handful of Canadian bishops, plan to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican March 28-April 1. (CNS photo/Carlos Osorio, Reuters)
To face the challenge of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, Canada’s bishops will need to reinvent themselves.

“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her” (Jn 8:7).

A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Kieran Maelia
I’ve often said that as a Catholic feminist covering the Vatican, I cannot wait until it is no longer newsworthy when women take on greater leadership roles in the church, but it is de rigeur.
On Day 32 of the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis made another passionate appeal to political leaders “to understand that every day of war makes worse the situation for everyone.”
A Reflection for the Saturday of the Third Week of Lent, by Kevin Clarke
Pope Francis prays during a special prayer in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, March 25, 2022, wearing purple vestments.
Pope Francis presided Friday over a special prayer for Ukraine that harked back to a century-old apocalyptic Fatima prophecy about peace and Russia.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank in ‘The Power of the Dog’ (Netflix)
The film mostly reinforces a longstanding and problematic trope.
Pope Francis embraces Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud after praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
The portrait of Pope Francis that emerges from conversations with his friends is that of a man as resolutely down-to-earth and dependably Argentinian as his immigrant neighborhood.
The price for a gallon of regular-grade gasoline is shown at a service station in Denver on March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Our natural impulse is to do whatever it takes to keep gasoline and other prices low. But should it be cheap to further endanger our planet?