The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:22:34 -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
The truth and denial dilemma /item/37381-the-truth-and-denial-dilemma /item/37381-the-truth-and-denial-dilemma

Since the May 2021 announcement by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Canada has been embroiled in difficult attempts to come to terms with claims of mass graves, murder and genocide. 

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Canada Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:25:14 -0500
Indigenous inquiry favours prison sentences for ‘denialism’ /item/37335-indigenous-inquiry-favours-prison-sentences-for-denialism /item/37335-indigenous-inquiry-favours-prison-sentences-for-denialism

After two and a half years of work, Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray has released a two-volume report at the Oct. 29-30 National Gathering on Unmarked Graves in Gatineau, Que. that focused more on reparations and denialism than the identification and protection of unmarked graves. 

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Canada Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:26:42 -0500
A ‘deeply flawed system’: B.C. reconciliation /item/37324-a-deeply-flawed-system-b-c-reconciliation /item/37324-a-deeply-flawed-system-b-c-reconciliation

Vancouver Archbishop Raymond Roussin, SM, called the residential school system “deeply flawed” when in 2008 he made an historic apology on behalf of the Archdiocese of Vancouver.

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Canada Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:18:59 -0500
Reconciliation fund already making a difference /item/37206-reconciliation-fund-already-making-a-difference /item/37206-reconciliation-fund-already-making-a-difference

With over $17.5 million raised in the two-and-a-half years since the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund (IRF) became a registered charity in March 2022, the 73 Canadian Catholic dioceses are poised to exceed the five-year $30-million commitment Canada's Catholic bishops made to the nation's Indigenous peoples.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:26:05 -0400
Canada's bishops recommit to reconciliation /item/36978-canada-s-bishops-recommit-to-reconciliation /item/36978-canada-s-bishops-recommit-to-reconciliation

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) President Bishop William McGrattan today reaffirmed the Catholic ChurchƵapp commitment to reconciliation with CanadaƵapp Indigenous peoples to mark the second anniversary of Pope Francis embarking upon his penitential pilgrimage to Canada.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:59:52 -0400
Editorial: This is how healing is done /columns/item/36910-editorial-this-is-how-healing-is-done /columns/item/36910-editorial-this-is-how-healing-is-done

Flaws will be found, objections raised, and nits picked with the Sacred Covenant made between Catholic and Indigenous leaders regarding the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C.

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editor@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Editorial) Editorial Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:04:48 -0400
Archdiocese of Vancouver and Kamloops First Nation release Sacred Covenant on Indigenous Peoples Day /item/36895-archdiocese-of-vancouver-and-kamloops-first-nation-release-sacred-covenant-on-indigenous-peoples-day /item/36895-archdiocese-of-vancouver-and-kamloops-first-nation-release-sacred-covenant-on-indigenous-peoples-day

The Sacred Covenant signed on Easter Sunday by the Archdiocese of Vancouver and Kamloops First Nation was made public on Friday, National Indigenous Peoples Day.

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canadiancatholicnews@catholicregister.org (Canadian Catholic News) Canada Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:36:28 -0400
Literature for travelling reconciliationƵapp long road /opinion/guest-columnists/item/36797-literature-for-travelling-reconciliation-s-long-road /opinion/guest-columnists/item/36797-literature-for-travelling-reconciliation-s-long-road

Reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and entities of the Catholic Church will be a long road to travel. Dr. Natasha Duquette has taken some steps along this road by recently offering an academic course called Indigenous Writers of North America.

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lea.kivi@sympatico.ca (Lea Karen Kivi ) Guest Columns Thu, 23 May 2024 11:25:32 -0400
Covenant signing a ‘local initiative,’ with hope that more will follow /item/36658-covenant-signing-a-local-initiative-with-hope-that-more-will-follow /item/36658-covenant-signing-a-local-initiative-with-hope-that-more-will-follow

Though Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller called the Easter accord between the Kamloops First Nation and two British Columbia Catholic dioceses a significant and historic “milestone,” there appear to be no plans for other Canadian bishops to immediately follow suit.

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afarrow@catholicregister.org (Anna Farrow) Features Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:03:17 -0400