In a historic moment in the long journey of reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Indigenous peoples of Canada, Pope Leo XIV formally handed over 62 artifacts from the Vatican Museums to a delegation of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. The artifacts, including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings that have been […]
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Pope Leo returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada
Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada’s Indigenous communities artifacts—including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings—that have been held by the Vatican for more than 100 years.
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Meet the longest-serving Native American Catholic deacon in the United States
Deacon Black Bear made it his mission to integrate Native American spiritualities and Catholic rites and rituals.
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Oscar-nominated ‘Sugarcane’ finds beauty after the terror of Canada’s residential school abuses
“Sugarcane” is, surprisingly, a story of healing, although the healing does not come from the church or its ministers.
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The Indigenous sister risking her life to protect the Amazon
On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac are joined by Sister Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso, an Indigenous activist fighting to protect the Amazon rainforest and serve its people.
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Indigenous priest shot dead in Mexico’s increasingly violent Chiapas state
Father Marcelo Pérez, an Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist, was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state.
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Podcast: Women doing deacon-like ministry meet with Pope Francis
On the eve of the final session of the Synod on Synodality, a diverse group of women working in ministry at the margins of the church had the opportunity of a lifetime: a private audience with Pope Francis.
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Synod Diary: Women deacons are not a ‘Western’ obsession
At this stage of the discernment, we might ponder if the categorization of women deacons as a “Western obsession” has itself in some ways become a Western obsession.
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Black Elk’s Lakota spirituality reminded him (and us): God has heard and seen it all
His Catholicism was enriched by an image of God as “older than all need,” an image that reflected the ancient wisdom of his people.
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Indigenous parishioners shocked by removal of ‘Apache Christ’ icon from their New Mexico church
Indigenous Catholics in New Mexico are reeling after an image of Christ as an Apache holy man was taken from a Mescalero mission. The church’s pastor has fallen under suspicion of complicity in the removal.