Every ticket scooped up by scalpers is one less ticket available to the very people that the pope is going to Canada to see.
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Despite knee pain, Pope Francis’ trip to Canada to meet residential school survivors is on
The Vatican released the itinerary for Pope Francis’ visit to Canada in late July, providing a sign he intends to go ahead with the trip.
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A young Canadian woman is reconsidering medically assisted dying after a GoFundMe campaign
For a young woman with acute environmental hypersensitivity, applying to government authorities for assistance with dying has proved far easier than dealing with the housing bureaucracy.
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Pope Francis will visit Indigenous peoples in Canada in late July, Vatican confirms
Pope Francis will meet members of Canada’s Indigenous communities in late July, visiting the cities of Edmonton, Quebec, and Iqaluit in Nunavut, the country’s most northern region.
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Interview: Canadian Archbishop Bolen on the visit between Pope Francis and Indigenous peoples
In this exclusive interview, Canadian Archbishop Don Bolen shares the significance of the pope’s meeting with Indigenous survivors of Canada’s residential schools and what he expects from the pope’s pledged visit to Canada.
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Podcast: What Pope Francis’ mobility issues could mean for his upcoming travels
Pope Francis hopes to visit Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan in July, with possible trips to Ukraine and Lebanon before that. But this past weekend, the pope struggled to move around during his trip to Malta.
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Roundtable: Indigenous survivors of abuse on truth, reconciliation and the need for a papal apology
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” survivors explain their hopes for what healing can look like when the church and indigenous people face the truth together.
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The Canadian church’s leadership is changing. What could it mean for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples?
To face the challenge of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, Canada’s bishops will need to reinvent themselves.
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When we got a new bishop, he didn’t know about our archdiocese’s history of abuse. Then he listened to me and other victims.
When victims and survivors of sexual abuse are blamed, marginalized, stigmatized or silenced, they can be traumatized all over again. The Archdiocese of Regina is trying something new in its work with survivors.
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Truck protest against vaccine mandates is polarizing Canada — and clergy have mixed reactions
The main body of protesters continued a diesel-rumbling siege of Parliament Hill, igniting fire pits on city streets and sounding truck horns at all hours, driving local residents to despair.