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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November 28, 1969
In response by the Conference to the Government of Canada Statement on Indian Policy, the Bishops pledged support and cooperation for Native land claims and other rights and invited the Government to negotiate with Indigenous Peoples and to grant them financial resources to prepare their cases.
1968
Opening of Ste-Marie among the Hurons, the 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Hurons in Midland, Ontario. Its restoration was a collaborative undertaking by the Upper Canadian Province of the Jesuits and the Government of Ontario.
April 7, 1967
From “A Letter from the Assembly of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada on the Occasion of the One Hundredth Year of Confederation”:
The Problem of Minorities
It is now recognized that the Indians and Eskimos have often had to endure, and sometimes still endure, the effect of prejudice, ignorance, indifference, […]
October 3, 1965
The Board of the Conference, meeting in Rome, “granted, for this year, an amount of $3,000 [nearly $25,000 in 2018 dollars] to the St. John Bosco Indian-Metis Cultural Centre [of Winnipeg]. This institution, founded in the fall of 1963, aims at promoting the social, economic and spiritual progress of the […]
1950’s, 1960’s
The Conference consistently advocated for the rights of Catholic Native Canadians to health care in Catholic hospitals and education in Catholic schools.
1952
The Canadian Catholic Conference [the name was changed to Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) in 1977] had established a Permanent/Standing Committee on Indian Affairs/Comité des Affaires indiennes (later named Committee on Indian and Eskimo Affairs).
October 12-13, 1943
Extract from the minutes of the Quinquennial Plenary Meeting of the Canadian Hierarchy:
The Government proposes to erect hospitals to which Catholic Indians will be compelled to go when in need of treatment – on the ground that they are the wards of the Government, which alone determines their lot. The […]