September 18, 1992
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”.
Sep 18
1992
Sep 2
1992
September 2, 1992
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 […]
Jan 1
1992
1992
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.
Jan 1
1992
1992
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.
Jul 24
1991
July 24, 1991
An Apology in connection to the Indian Residential Schools was delivered to the First Nations by the Oblate Conference of Canada.
Mar 13
1991
March 13-15, 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.
Nov 30
1990
November 30, 1990
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 […]
Sep 1
1990
September 1990
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.
Aug 28
1990
August 28, 1990
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.
Aug 28
1990
August 28, 1990
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.