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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Report identifies abuses of Native American children in U.S. boarding schools, some run by Catholics
About 50 percent of the schools received support or involvement from religious institutions or organizations, according to the report.
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Don’t get the appeal of the Latin Mass? Look to an Indigenous sun dance
The revitalization of ceremonial life in Indigenous communities and the resurgence of the Latin Mass both reflect a desire to return to a more holistic way of knowing, characteristic of our ancestors.
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A Jesuit’s Palm Sunday with the ‘crucified church’ of Belize
The prayer of Father Sam Wilson is that more of his brother Jesuits will answer the call to serve in assignments on the peripheries like southern Belize. “It’s where we should be,” he says.
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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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After Pope Francis apology, U.S. church braces for its own boarding school reckoning
As Pope Francis apologizes for abuses at Catholic boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for a reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools.
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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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Pope Francis makes historic apology to Indigenous of Canada for church abuses
Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools.
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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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Inside Day 1 of the historic encounter between Pope Francis and Canada’s Indigenous communities
Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path of truth, justice and healing of Canada’s Indigenous communities.