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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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.
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.
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.
August 28, 1990
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.
August 24, 1990
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission appealed to the Mohawks, the Quebec Government and the Federal Government for immediate peaceful solutions in the Oka situation, including removal of barricades, refraining from use of armed intervention, and pursuit of a just settlement of the Mohawk claims.
July 29, 1990
CCCB President, the Most Rev. Bernard Hubert, representing the CCCB at the march for “Peace and Justice” held at Oka, issued the statement “Achieving Peace at Oka”.
July 17, 1990
The Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister urging a just and moral solution to the conflict at Oka.
May 29, 1990
The President of the CCCB wrote to the prime minister concerning constitutional recognition of the rights of Aboriginal Peoples.
November 17, 1989
A group of Innu people from Quebec and Labrador were met in Rome by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II.
April 24, 1989
The President of the CCCB wrote to the prime minister about the government’s decision to cut funding for post-secondary education of Native students.