Canada’s bishops express ‘deepest sorrow’ over loss of 215 children found buried at former residential school
Canada’s bishops are expressing their “deepest sorrow” and pledge to “continue walking side by side” with Indigenous people in the wake of the discovery of the bodies of 215 children buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
OTTAWA - Canadian bishops are calling on Catholic institutions to tell “a truthful history” of the Church’s interaction with indigenous peoples.
Native suicide crisis part of the heartache of ministering in First Nations’ communities
Living alongside Canada's First Nations people is a ministry of highs and heartaches for Archbishop Murray Chatlain.
And the heartache comes to the forefront at times like now, highlighted by a suicide crisis that has struck the First Nations’ community of Cross Lake, Man.
$8-million donation opens St. FX to marginalized
The largest private alumni donation ever to St. Francis Xavier University will help bring post-secondary education to more of Nova Scotia’s marginalized people.
TORONTO - California Governor Jerry Brown, in Toronto for the Climate Summit of the Americas, claims he is travelling with a copy of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’ and “going through it carefully.”
Burst pipes lead to historical find in Bathurst diocese
For years the outdated library in the basement of the Bathurst diocesan offices saw more mice and rats than readers, said Bishop Daniel Jodoin. But when pipes burst during the spring thaw, new doors were opened to our nation’s past.
Apology accepted
Among the action calls from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report on residential schools is an insistence that Pope Francis apologize in person to Canada’s aboriginal peoples.
Time for reconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2015
Click below to read articles about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations and how Canadians are responding to them.
- Call for papal apology problematic, by Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
- Religious accept TRC findings, vow to do more, by Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
- Editorial: Apology accepted
- The healing must begin now, Sinclair says, by Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
- Reconciliation must begin in the classrooms, by Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
- TRC says Pope Francis should apologize for abuses at residential schools, by Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
- Long way to go to First Nations' reconciliation by Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Close to 500 people, equal numbers of native and non-native Canadians, walked through a cold, constant rain in Toronto to urge reconciliation on Canada’s largest city.
TORONTO - In the province’s largest and most urbanized Catholic school board, efforts are being made to mend the wounds caused by Indian residential schools.
TORONTO - Highly acclaimed First Nations playwright Drew Hayden Taylor is bringing a poignant play to Toronto about a dark part of Canadian history.
Mi’kmaq seek return of 300-year-old altar
JOHNSTOWN, N.S. - The people of Potlotek First Nation say an ornate wooden altar stored at the nearby Sacred Heart Catholic Church was a gift to the Mi’kmaq nearly 300 years ago, and they want it back.