In the wake of the Oka crisis, the Social Affairs Office of the CCCB prepared an information kit for distribution to Catholic dioceses to be used as an educational resource to raise the awareness among Christians about the struggles for Aboriginal rights.
Publication of the book That the World May Believe: The Development of Papal Social Thought on Aboriginal Rights, by Michael Stogre, S.J., a study of the development of the Church’s social teaching on aboriginal rights over the past seven centuries.
An Apology in connection to the Indian Residential Schools was delivered to the First Nations by the Oblate Conference of Canada.
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Apology
Lac Ste. Anne Alberta, July 1991
Catholic leaders participated in a National Meeting on Indian Residential Schools at- Saskatoon, SK. They issued a statement expressing their apology and their commitment to dialogue with, and their support of, the Indigenous communities.
Milton McWatch of the Ojibway people was ordained a Catholic priest at Christ the King Church in Sudbury by Bishop Jean Louis Plouffe. One of the very few Native priests in Canada, he had been educated by Jesuits at the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre and at Regis College, the Jesuit theologate […]
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission urged the federal government to meet with representatives of Native groups to settle for acceptable, just and moral solution to the Oka crisis.
The Social Affairs Commission wrote to the premier of Quebec asking for a negotiation process that would ensure Mohawks’ rights and the setting up of a commission to oversee friendly relations between Natives and Whites in resolving the Oka situation.
The Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister asking for the immediate setting up of a negotiation process to ensure rights of Mohawks and a mechanism to find just solutions for claims (land rights and self-government) of Aboriginal nations across Canada.
A CCCB Plenary Assembly session was entitled After Oka. There was a proposal by the Social Affairs Commission to prepare an information kit to serve as an education tool concerning Native issues.