Features Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:27:59 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Indigenous Rosary walks reconciliation path /item/37561-indigenous-rosary-walks-reconciliation-path /item/37561-indigenous-rosary-walks-reconciliation-path

For over a year, Canadian Catholic Indigenous faithful have been gathering online each month to pray the Rosary in the different Indigenous languages of Canada. 

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Features Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:31:47 -0500
Canadian priest breathes new life into dying languages /item/36385-canadian-priest-breathes-new-life-into-dying-languages /item/36385-canadian-priest-breathes-new-life-into-dying-languages

A Canadian priest has launched a new phase in his efforts to preserve the threatened languages of the Makushi and Wapishana Indigenous peoples in the vast Diocese of Roraima in northern Brazil.

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Canada Fri, 26 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0500
Pope Francis pushes return of Indigenous artifacts /item/35493-pope-francis-pushes-return-of-indigenous-artifacts /item/35493-pope-francis-pushes-return-of-indigenous-artifacts

Pope Francis is getting personally involved in making sure sacred items and cultural artifacts held in the Vatican Museums are returned to Canadian Indigenous communities.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 03 May 2023 10:56:20 -0400
Indigenous traditions enrich Catholic faith /faith/item/34887-indigenous-traditions-enrich-catholic-faith /faith/item/34887-indigenous-traditions-enrich-catholic-faith

It was a double celebration — the launch of a first book of its kind by an Anishinaabe Catholic woman, and a powerful lesson on how a harmonious blend of indigenous rituals and practices with those of Western Christianity could illuminate the path to a renewed spirit of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and an enriched Catholic Church.

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Faith Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:09:26 -0400
Editorial: Liturgies of reconciliation /columns/item/34727-editorial-liturgies-of-reconciliation /columns/item/34727-editorial-liturgies-of-reconciliation

Following Pope Francis’ peripatetic apology this summer, and as the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation looms at SeptemberƵapp end, itƵapp safe to foresee increases in Indigenous “adaptations” of Catholic liturgy.

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editor@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Editorial) Editorial Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:25:04 -0400
Indigenous spirituality a fit in Catholic Mass /item/34726-indigenous-spirituality-a-fit-in-catholic-mass /item/34726-indigenous-spirituality-a-fit-in-catholic-mass

As Canadian parishes take up Pope Francis’ challenge to incorporate reconciliation into the life of the Church, particularly as we get closer to the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, there are liturgical options available for Sunday morning Masses in all kinds of parishes.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:19:54 -0400
Indigenous priest shares practices that will be part of Pope Francis' Canada trip /item/34601-indigenous-priest-shares-practices-that-will-be-part-of-pope-francis-canada-trip /item/34601-indigenous-priest-shares-practices-that-will-be-part-of-pope-francis-canada-trip

When Pope Francis travels to Canada to apologize to Indigenous communities for the way the Catholic Church joined efforts to uproot them from their traditional culture and spirituality, their traditions will be on full display.

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cns@catholicnews.com (Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service) Canada Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:22:38 -0400
Students get the conversation on water flowing /item/34421-students-get-the-conversation-on-water-flowing /item/34421-students-get-the-conversation-on-water-flowing

For the Diversity Club at Sudbury, OntƵapp St. Benedict Catholic School, the conversation on water and what it means in Indigenous cultures began on Earth Day.

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waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 20 May 2022 09:16:35 -0400
Restoring languages will help right past wrongs /item/33226-restoring-languages-will-help-right-past-wrongs /item/33226-restoring-languages-will-help-right-past-wrongs

When news of the 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School landed in Edmonton, an elder in the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples wanted to put out a statement in Cree. The problem is that survivors of the residential school system lost their language when they were children in the schools.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:27:08 -0400
English course to explore Indigenous voices /features/item/32008-english-course-to-explore-indigenous-voices /features/item/32008-english-course-to-explore-indigenous-voices

When Grade 11 English students in Durham Catholic high schools receive their reading assignments this year, the works of Shakespeare and other conventional texts will be replaced with ones focusing on Indigenous voices.

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waclarke@catholicregister.private (Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic Register) Catholic Education Sun, 30 Aug 2020 12:00:00 -0400