The Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle seeks to assist Catholics in their engagement with the Truth and Reconciliation process and its Calls to Action. The Circle seeks first to understand Indigenous Peoples and Spiritualities and their relationship to the Catholic Church. It is by honouring Indigenous peoples, cultures and spiritualities and by acknowledging with sadness the many failures of the past that the work of reconciliation can move forward.
The Circle recognizes that understanding and education must lead to action for reconciliation.
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November 28, 2005
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.
Hiver 2004 (Winter Issue)
Numéro spéciale (vol 38, no. 180) de la revue Liturgie, foi et culture de l’Office nationale de liturgie de la CECC sur « Les Autochtones et la liturgie : Mémoire et récollection »
(en français)
May 31, 2004
The Catholic Indigenous Council hosted an Indigenous delegation from Brazil at the offices of the CCCB. The delegation included four Indigenous political leaders and representatives of the Missionary Indigenous Council, attached to the Brazilian National Bishops Council. The conversation focused on the relationship of the Catholic Church with Indigenous Peoples in […]
May 26, 2004
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 […]
April 29 – May 2, 2004
Members of the Catholic Indigenous Council for Reconciliation council presented a workshop entitled “Dialogue in Post-colonial Aboriginal Context” to delegates from across Canada at the CCCB’s National Organization for Religious Education’s Adult Faith Formation Conference.
2004
The Catholic Indigenous Council for Reconciliation renewed its support for the Returning to Spirit program. In addition to a financial commitment to support host community organizations to put on the workshops, the council continued to work with other interested parties to clarify questions related to the organizational development of Returning to […]
March 19, 2003
An Ecumenical Statement of Church Leaders on Aboriginal Rights was issued following a roundtable meeting of Church leaders, representatives of the Assembly of First Nations and the Department of Indian Affairs, to discuss the proposed federal First Nations legislation that was before the House of Common, including Bill C-7: the First Nations […]
2002
The Catholic Indigenous Council for Reconciliation was established by the 2002 Plenary Assembly of the CCCB following the original five-year term of the National Council for Reconciliation, Solidarity and Communion. Dioceses were invited to contribute $3,000 a year for a three-year period to a national fund. Religious communities and other […]
August 2001
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.
November 2000
“The First Nations, the Churches, and Canada: How can we walk together towards justice?” was the title of a meeting of the governing board of the Canadian Council of Churches at which presentations were made by Mr. Gerry Kelly, director of the Office of Reconciliation, Solidarity and Communion of the […]