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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January 18, 1989
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the ministers of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and National Defence congratulating them for meeting with Innu leaders who wished to find a just solution to their territorial claims.
October 7, 1988
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the ministers of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and National Defence, protesting the arrest of Innu leaders including six women and their pastor and urging the government to meet with Innu leaders in an effort to resolve conflict over low-level flights […]
June 12, 1998
Establishment of the CCCB Council for Reconciliation, Solidarity and Communion (now the Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council) to manage the Fund for Reconciliation Solidarity and Communion. It was directed by Bishops and Aboriginal Catholics and provides grants to projects and initiatives.
March 22, 1988
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the minister of National Defence concerning the impact on Native communities in Labrador of low-level test flights and bombing practices, and the possible establishment of a NATO Tactical Fighter Weapons Training Centre in Goose Bay.
September 20, 1987
Pope (now Saint) John Paul II addressed the Native Peoples of Canada at Fort Simpson, NT. His plane had been unable to land there in 1984 because of weather conditions; he promised to return and did so en route to the United States.
September 11, 1987
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister questioning the implications for Aboriginal Rights of the Meech Lake Accord, as well as the government’s intentions to stop funding to Native organizations for research and programs on constitutional matters.
February 5, 1987
Publication of “A New Covenant: Towards the Constitutional Recognition and Protection of Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada, a Pastoral Statement by the Leaders of the Christian Churches on Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution.”
June 12, 1986
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote the prime minister supporting recommendations of the Cooligan Report on comprehensive claims policies affecting Aboriginal Peoples.
March 21, 1986
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister concerning settlement of Lubicon land claims in Alberta as proposed by the Fulton Report.
November 5, 1985
The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to the premier of British Columbia and the president of Haida Nation about logging on Lyell Island.