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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March 25, 2016
Interview with Bishop Donald Bolen, Chairman of the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, on Catholic responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.
Catholic response on “Doctrine of Discovery” and terra nullius
In response to Call to Action 48 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and in response to questions raised on the legal concepts known as “Doctrine of Discovery” and terra nullius, four Canadian Catholic organizations representing Bishops, institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life, Indigenous People, and laity have issued two […]
February 17, 2016
Speech by Sister Marie Zarowny, S.S.A. to the Canadian Federation of University Women Victoria, entitled “What to do about the TRC’s Call to Action?”
June 12, 2015
Statement by the Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in an Initial Response to the Summary Report and Calls to Action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
June 2, 2015
Statement by Archbishop J. Michael Miller, C.S.B., of Vancouver on the closing ceremonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
May 29, 2015
Pastoral letter by Archbishop Richard Gagnon of Winnipeg to the First Nations communities and to all the People of God in the Archdiocese. (In the diocesan paper June 3, 2015. Scroll down to page 3:)
May 2015
A Pastoral Letter was issued to the people of the Archdiocese of Ottawa regarding Reconciliation with Aboriginal Peoples by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J. (Scroll down to page 3:)
March 27-30 2014
Expression of Reconciliation from The Canadian Council of Churches presented at the final National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in Edmonton, Alberta – March 27‐30, 2014
March 29, 2014
An Apology to the First Nations of Canada by the Missionary Oblates of Canada