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‘I am sorry’: Canadian Indigenous react to papal apology

The words “I am sorry” are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Muskwa, or Bear Park, Powwow Grounds. “It’s just very powerful,” Ward told The Catholic Register after Pope Francis finished delivering his historic apology on Indigenous land for the […]

‘I am sorry’: Canadian Indigenous react to papal apology

MASKWACIS, Alberta (CNS) — The words “I am sorry” are powerful. For Tammy Ward of the Samson First Nation, those words from Pope Francis brought tears as she listened on the Muskwa, or Bear Park, Powwow Grounds. “It’s just very powerful,” Ward told The Catholic Register, Toronto-based newspaper, after Pope Francis finished delivering his historic […]

Charlie McKinney: How Catholics can find the wisdom for these times…

“The most important thing for any Catholic — right now and frankly, at any time in history — is to focus on your spiritual life. That is what’s going to give us the wisdom to deal with the culture and all the problems that beset us. It’s going to give us the understanding, the knowledge, […]

These 10 car features took absolutely forever to die…

Vehicle technology wasn’t always as good as it is now—over 100 years of innovation have gone into making cars what they are today. In that time, many different trends have come and gone, and while some died hard, others kept breathing until their last breath.

The papal penance pilgrimage, and more on the Syro-Malabar liturgy war…

Pope Francis is in Canada this week, on a “penitential pilgrimage” among Indigenous people across Canada. This is not the very model of a modern papal pilgrimage — Francis is not focused on meeting with heads of state, or celebrating stadia Masses. There will be some of that. But most of the trip is focused […]

Pope Apologizes for ‘Deplorable Evil’ of Canadian Indigenous Schools…

Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada’s native people on their land for the Church’s role in schools where indigenous children were abused, calling their forced cultural assimilation a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.” Speaking near the site of two former schools in Maskwacis, Alberta, Francis apologized for Christian support of the “colonizing mentality” of […]