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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June 28-July 1, 2011
The Most Rev. Sylvain Lavoie, Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, Most Rev. Gary Gordon, Bishop of Whitehorse, and Most Rev. Murray Chatlain, Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s second national event in Inuvik, NT and participated in a Gesture of Reconciliation event with Anglican Bishops […]
CCCB Website, 2011
Catholic Statements of Regret on former Residential Schools
June 15-19, 2010
The Most Reverend Gerard Pettipas, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan and Chair of CCEPIRSS, addressed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s first national event in Winnipeg. The event was also attended by the Most Rev. James Weisgerber, Archbishop of Winnipeg, Most Rev. Sylvain Lavoie, Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas, and Most Rev. […]
June 9, 2010
CCCB with other members of the ecumenical social justice coalition Kairos sent a letter to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Canadian Heritage, and Indian Affairs and Northern Development welcoming the announcement in the March 3, 2010 Throne Speech that the Government of Canada was moving to endorse the United Nations Declaration […]
June 3, 2010
Message from Archbishop James Weisgerber on the national event of the Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg from June 16-19, 2010.
June – August 2010
Participation of the Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council and the Most Rev. Martin Currie, Most Rev. Anthony Mancini and Most Rev. Brian Dunn in a number of events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Baptism of Chief Membertou, in Port Royal, Halifax and Cape Breton. Pope Benedict XVI appointed His Eminence Marc […]
2010
Creation of a CCCB position for an Indigenous Relations Advisor in order to work more closely with the dioceses and Catholic organizations to ensure a Catholic presence in the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and related events.
July 15, 2009
Very Rev. James Weisgerber, Archbishop of Winnipeg and President of the CCCB, wrote to to Justice Murray Sinclair to congratulate him on his appointment as Commissioner to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
June 11, 2009
Participation of the Most Rev. Paul-André Durocher, Bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall, as the CCCB delegate to the first National Day of Reconciliation, commemorating the first anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology to Aboriginal Peoples on behalf of the Government of Canada for Indian Residential Schools. Archbishop Durocher took part in a traditional […]
May 2, 2009
Apology of the Most Rev. Murray Chatlain, Bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith Inuvik, NT regarding former Residential Schools.