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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August 14, 1981
The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, expressing appreciation of the government’s decision to delay construction of the Norman Wells Pipeline and to suspend work on Petro Canada leases in the Mackenzie Valley for two years as requested by Dene and Metis […]
June 12, 1981
CCCB President Joseph N. MacNeil, Archbishop of Edmonton, wrote to Bishops in support of ensuring that the Native people of the North would benefit from development, expressing concern about the potential impact of Bill C-48, Oil and Gas legislation.
April 16, 1981
President Joseph N. MacNeil, Archbishop of Edmonton, wrote to the Hon. John Munro, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, in support of the Inuit Tapirisat resolution regarding a proposed Inuit Broadcasting System.
March 25, 1981
The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to the federal government about recent proposals for oil and gas legislation (Bill C-48), asserting that the legislation would pose a serious threat to Aboriginal Peoples of the North and other permanent residents of the territories.
January 26, 1981
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister regarding the Amax Corporation operation in Kitsault, BC, and the Nishga Tribal Council, urging a full-scale independent inquiry on social and environmental impacts.
June 24, 1980
Beatification in Rome of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Indigenous person from North America to be beatified.
1979
Founding of Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, Anderson Lake (Espanola), ON by the Jesuits of Upper Canada. It is a retreat centre for Native Canadians. It became the site of the Indian Lay Permanent Deacon program and Ojibway Theological Centre for the formation of Native permanent deacons and priests. It has offered […]
1979
The Northern Native Rights Campaign was organized by the Project North ecumenical coalition, with participation of the Conference’s Social Affairs Department, to raise public awareness about the concerns of the northern Native peoples for aboriginal nationhood in the context of constitutional debate about the political future of the country. The […]
April 26, 1978
The Conference’s Social Affairs Commission and its Human Rights Committee wrote to the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development expressing concern about the government’s plan not to renew the freeze on mining exploration in the Baker Lake region of the Northwest Territories and about the possibility that uranium companies […]
1978
The Upper Canadian Province of the Jesuits (the English Canadian Jesuits) established an Indian Lay Permanent Deacon program and opened an Ojibway Theological Centre at Spanish, ON.