From southern India to Canada's far north: New archbishop serves Indigenous Catholics

As a teenager in India, Susai Jesu led prayer services in his small Catholic village, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Catholic Church will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as part of reconciliation

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church’s ...
National Catholic Register

Report: 33 Churches in Canada Destroyed by Fire Since May 2021

While the CBC News report recorded 33 churches that burned to the ground, many more churches have been victimized by attacks. The loss of St. Bernard’s Church in Grouard, Alberta, Canada, on May 22, ...
National Catholic Register

Canada Bishops Address Ongoing Search for Indigenous Graves Amid Calls for Greater Accuracy

No human remains were found in last month’s excavation of a Catholic church basement on Pine Creek First Nations lands in Manitoba, Canada, after the community asked a Brandon University ...
NPR

The pope's apology to Indigenous people doesn't go far enough, Canada says

QUEBEC CITY — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country's church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, suggesting ...
National Catholic Reporter

Church unity threatened by ideology, pope tells Jesuits in Canada

The unity of the Catholic Church's bishops is fundamental in correcting past wrongs and in confronting challenges today, Pope Francis said. Meeting with a group of Jesuits in Canada July 29, the pope ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Pope apologizes for 'devastating' school abuses in Canada

MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced ...