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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May 13, 1993
Apology to Native Americans for Past Mistakes, by Jesuit Superior General Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., given in Idaho.
December 6, 1992
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 […]
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”.
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 […]
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.
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.
July 24, 1991
An Apology in connection to the Indian Residential Schools was delivered to the First Nations by the Oblate Conference of Canada.
July 1991
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Apology
Lac Ste. Anne Alberta, July 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.
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 […]