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Ted Quewezance, former chief of Keeseekoose First Nation and a residential school survivor.

Indigenous demand Pope Francis revoke Doctrine of Discovery

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First Nations delegates who met with Pope Francis today are still awaiting word on whether the Pope will renounce the Doctrine of Discovery.

Archbishop Donald Bolen of Regina, Saskatchewan, is pictured with Ted Quewezance, former chief of Keeseekoose First Nation and a residential school survivor, near the Vatican in Rome March 30, 2022. Canadian Indigenous delegations are in Rome for meetings with Pope Francis.

Indigenous want truth about past, partnership for future

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VATICAN CITY -- Ted Quewezance came to the Vatican looking for closure.

Gary Gagnon, an elder and educator in the Metis community.

Indigenous bring synodality to Rome

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Metis elder and educator Gary Gagnon knows that what’s going on in Rome this week is not some esoteric side issue for the Catholic Church. It’s at the heart of the most important issue in the Church under Pope Francis.

'Madonna with child Jesus' by Inuit sculptor Tivi Ilisituk (1933-2012) is in the Vatican Museums. This work was gifted to Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.

Vatican’s Indigenous collection opened to Canadian delegation

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As members of all three Indigenous delegations in Rome to meet with Pope Francis toured the Anima Mundi collection at the Vatican Museums, there were mixed feelings. Some were in awe, while some wanted to know how these examples of Indigenous culture ended up half a world away from where they were made.

Members of the press gather in St. Peter's Square to cover the meetings of Canada's indigenous representatives with Pope Francis.

Indigenous delegation makes headlines worldwide

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The unprecedented meetings this week between Pope Francis and three Canadian delegations of Indigenous people in Rome are big news. Thirteen camera crews and dozens of journalists — Italian, American, British and Canadian — greeted Metis National Council president Cassidy Caron after the MNC delegation of nine came out to St. Peter’s Square after their hour-long encounter with the bishop of Rome.

Ukrainian refugees in Przemysl, Poland, wait to board a bus to take them to a temporary shelter March 23, 2022.

Polish archbishop updates Pope Francis on aid to Ukraine refugees

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VATICAN CITY -- Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan told Pope Francis that the Catholic Church in Poland is continuing its efforts to assist the countless refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia's destructive war in the country.

Métis National Council president Cassidy Caron addresses the media just outside of St. Peter’s Square, March 28, 2022.

Pope Francis listened, Metis hope Canadians do

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Led by two fiddlers playing the Red River Jig to the amazement of tourists, Metis delegates skirted past St. Peter’s Square on their way out from an hour-long meeting with Pope Francis before meeting the assembled press from Rome and Canada.

The Vatican flag, left, flies over a Vatican office building in Rome. When the Vatican speaks, people listen. Diplomats from the Holy See may be few, but they are influential on the world scene.

Vatican voice heeded in corridors of power

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Holy See diplomats have 500 years of history behind them

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears on a large screen as he addresses the Italian Parliament. Zelenskyy received a standing ovation from Italian politicians at the end of his address via video link in Rome March 22 during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Zelenskyy spoke on the phone with Pope Francis before addressing the parliament, thanking the Pope “for the prayers for Ukraine and peace.”

Zelenskyy speaks with Pope Francis before addressing Italian leaders

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis had a “very promising” conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the president addressed the Italian parliament via video link March 22, said Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See.

Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, elevates the Eucharist in the kitchen at the apostolic nunciature in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this recent photo. During the war, Kulbokas has been celebrating Mass in the kitchen because it’s a well-protected area.

Ukraine at ‘epicentre of spiritual challenge’

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VATICAN CITY -- The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a tragic conflict between two nations, but the centre of a spiritual battle wrought by the forces of evil that have pitted brother against brother, said the apostolic nuncio to Ukraine.

People hold a banner with a picture of French Fr. Jacques Hamel after a July 27, 2016, Mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The banner reads, “Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” On March 9, a French court sentenced four men in connection with the priest’s murder.

Four sentenced in 2016 killing of French priest

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A Paris court sentenced four men in connection with the 2016 killing of Fr. Jacques Hamel, giving them sentences ranging from eight years to life in prison.

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