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Pope Francis listened, Metis hope Canadians do
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.
Indigenous hope to ‘create path forward’ with Pope Francis
A week of spiritual diplomacy between Pope Francis and three Canadian Indigenous delegations will begin with hope, Assembly of First Nations Northwest Territories Regional Chief Gerald Antoine told an international press corps gathering on Zoom March 24.
Why Rome matters
Rome is not just another city. It’s not even an Italian city. It belongs to the world and to God at one and the same time.
Vatican voice heeded in corridors of power
Holy See diplomats have 500 years of history behind them
Russian Orthodox support of war ‘heresy’
The Orthodox world, including nearly 40 Canadian Orthodox scholars and clergy, has risen up to condemn the Russian Orthodox Church for giving moral and spiritual support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Doctrine of Discovery stands in reconciliation’s path
1493 papal bull casts long shadow over Church-Indigenous relations
Oblates to open more residential school records
As three separate Indigenous delegations head to Rome for meetings with Pope Francis on March 28, March 31 and April 1, Canada’s Oblate Fathers have announced a deal with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to make more residential school records available, including material that may be archived in Rome and Paris.
Young Ukrainians have cross to bear
The Way of the Cross can be and has been explained in many ways, but before the theorizing, theologizing and prayers there is fear and there is pain.
Reconciliation begins with listening
Without grassroots Catholics, Indigenous-Church relations won’t move forward
AGO exhibit marks our mortality
When Pieter Claeissens the Elder was painting Moses Breaking Pharaoh’s Crown, Europe was entering a complex and confusing period of continual warfare. The crude version of this history blames it all either on Catholics trying to wipe out Protestants or Protestants trying to eliminate Catholics. Actually, it had more to do with money, geo-politics, empire, trade and a ruling class that was deeply incompetent.