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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October 1977
The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Hugh Faulkner regarding the Proposed Polar Gas Project to bring natural gas from the High Arctic to southern Canada. The Canadian Church leaders’ 1976 statement Justice Demands Action was attached to […]
March 1977
Presentation of a brief to the National Energy Board hearings on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline by the Social Affairs Commission Chair.
June 1976
Statement of Evidence by the Project North inter-church coalition before the Berger Commission, entitled “A Call for a Moratorium: Some Moral and Ethical Considerations in Relation to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline”.
April 17, 1976
The Conference’s Social Affairs Commission sent a Telex message to the prime minister promoting postponement of offshore drilling rights in the Beaufort Sea until adequate safeguards were taken to protect environment and consultation with Native communities affected.
April 1976
Presentation of a brief to the federal government’s Berger Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry hearings in Yellowknife. Entitled Colonial Patterns of Resource Development: A Case Study of the Native Peoples’ Struggle in the Amazon Basin of Brazil and its Implications for the Northwest Territories, the study was prepared jointly by the […]
March 7-13, 1976
The National Week for Northwest Territories Land Claims saw teams of Indian, Metis and Inuit spokespersons from NWT move across the country telling the story of their struggle for a just settlement on their land claims. Some members of the CCCB Social Affairs Commission took part by speaking at various […]
September 1, 1975
The Conference’s Social Affairs Department participated in the creation of the ecumenical Inter-church Project on Northern Development, also known as Project North. It focused on treaty and Aboriginal rights and the just settlement of land claims and promoted the search for equitable forms of development in response to proposals for […]
September 1, 1975
From the Conference’s Labour Day message “Northern Development: At What Cost?”, a pastoral statement on the development of energy resources and its impact on Native Peoples:
[W]hat we see emerging in the Canadian North are forms of exploitation which we often assume happen only Third World countries: a serious abuse of […]
March 25-26, 1971
National Indian Day of Prayer. From the minutes of the Board of the Canadian Catholic Conference:
A request was received from the Indian Ecumenical Conference that the CCC declare June 21 a “National Indian Day of Prayer”. June 21 has traditionally been a sacred day of fasting and prayer for […]
Labour Day, 1970
From a Statement by the Social Action Department, Liberation in a Christian Perspective:
In Canada as many as one quarter of the citizens, including most Indians, Metis and Eskimos, are still trapped within an imprisoning network of circumstances and constraints.