National Chief Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations and two other Indigenous representatives met with the Executive Committee of the CCCB. During a meeting in Rome with the secretary of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, he had expressed a desire for reconciliation and a new […]
Chief Harry Lafond, of the Muskeg Lake Band in Saskatchewan, addressed Pope John Paul II and Bishops attending the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Americas at the Vatican, regarding the relationship between the Christian Churches and the Aboriginal Peoples of America, in response to paragraphs 13, […]
Bishop Reynauld Rouleau, O.M.I., of the Churchill-Hudson’s Bay Diocese, apologized to Inuit who were physically and sexually abused at the residential Joseph Bernier School and Turquetil Hall in Chesterfield Inlet, NT, between 1952 and 1969.
The CCCB contributed to a Sacred Assembly promoting spiritual reconciliation and healing between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals in Canada, organized by Mr. Elijah Harper, MP for Churchill, and involving Native elders and religious and political leaders. Catholic participants included Sister Eva Solomon, C.S.J., Father Mike Stogre, S.J., Father Gerry Laboucane, O.M.I., […]
Publication by the CCCB of the 1993 presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Let Justice Flow like a Mighty River. The publication included workshops designed to increase awareness of the Aboriginal people’s rights and concerns and a summary of over sixty initiatives taken by the CCCB from 1969 […]
The CCCB presented a brief, Let Justice Flow Like a Mighty River, to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, reviewing the mission history of the Catholic Church with Indigenous Peoples in Canada and expressing the CCCB’s hope and confidence in the strength of the aboriginal people.
Apology to Native Americans for Past Mistakes, by Jesuit Superior General Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., given in Idaho.
In a homily at a Mass for the community of St. Catherine’s, Micmac, Nova Scotia, the Archbishop of Halifax, the Most Rev. Austin E. Burke, acknowledged and apologized for the pain caused by residential schools. On February 14, 1993, Archbishop Burke expressed the sorrow to the people of Sacred Heart […]
Statement entitled “Towards a New Evangelization: a message by the Permanent Council of the CCCB on the 500th anniversary of the Evangelization of the Americas”.
The Pastoral Committee for the Aboriginals of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Quebec/Assemblée des Évêques catholiques du Québec issued “The First Nations in Quebec: A Pastoral Letter on the Aboriginal Issue/Lettre pastorale sur la situation autochtone: les premières nations au Québec”. It expressed the Bishops’ commitment to the renewal […]