Launch of the “Moving Forward Together” Campaign by the 54 Catholic Entities of CCEPIRSS to support healing and educational programs for Canadian Aboriginal communities, including former residential school students and their families.
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement was signed by the Government of Canada, the Assembly of First Nations and Inuit Representatives, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church of Canada, the United Church of Canada, and eventually 54 Catholic entities representing 17 dioceses and 37 religious institutes […]
Creation of the Canadian Catholic Entities Party to the Indian Residential School Settlement (CCEPIRSS), composed of the 54 Catholic dioceses and religious congregations involved in the Indian residential schools. As part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement, CCEPIRSS agreed to raise and provide funds for healing and reconciliation.
Letter to Bishops from CCCB President Most Rev. André Guimond announcing agreement in principle with the Government of Canada for settlement of claims related to the former Indian Residential Schools.
Mr. Gerry Kelly participated in the first annual Ottawa gathering of the National Day for Healing and Reconciliation. The initiative for this grassroots movement to raise our national awareness of the need for healing and reconciliation within and between cultures came from the Nechi training centre in Edmonton, Alberta. The […]
The coordinator of the Catholic Organizations Task Group on Indian Residential Schools, Mr. Gerry Kelly, conducted a survey of dioceses and religious institutes on pastoral activities for aboriginal communities.
A statement of apology was made by Bishop Gerald Weisner, O.M.I., to former students of Indian Residential Schools, at a healing circle at Alkali Lake, in the diocese of Prince George, BC.
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.
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 […]
An Apology in connection to the Indian Residential Schools was delivered to the First Nations by the Oblate Conference of Canada.