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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February 24, 2014
The Catholic Bishops of Alberta and the Northwest Territories, pastoral letter.
January 16, 2014
Publication of statement by Sister Marie Zarowny, S.S.A., first presented at time of First Nations/Catholic Church Delegation to Rome and the Historic Meeting with Pope Benedict XVI Rome, April 30, 2009.
An adapted version was given on behalf of Congregations of women religious involved in the Indian Residential Schools of Canada, […]
August 15, 2013
Letter of invitation to attend the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from the Bishops of British Columbia and Yukon.
April 25, 2013
Fr. Winston Rye, S.J. gave a Statement of Reconciliation on behalf of the Jesuits in English Canada at the Truth and Reconciliation National Event in Montreal.
April 2013
Sharing Circle “The Heart of the Event”: the Most Rev. Christian Lépine participated in the national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Montreal.
(In French)
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
SHARING CIRCLE
PARCE QUE DIRE, C’EST GUÉRIR
October 21, 2012
Canonization in Rome of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha.
June 21-24, 2012
Statement of the Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s National Event in Saskatoon, SK.
June 7, 2012
Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops of Saskatchewan on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
December 19, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree officially acknowledging a miracle attributed to the intervention of Blessed Kateri Tekawitha.
October 26-28, 2011
The Most Rev. Anthony Mancini, Archbishop of Halifax and Most Rev. Brian Dunn, Bishop of Antigonish, attend the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s third national event in Halifax, Nova Scotia.