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Penance and plague: How the Black Death changed one of Christianity's most important rituals

The 14th century is known for catastrophe. By midcentury, the first wave of plague spread through a Europe already weakened by successive famines and the Hundred Years War between England and France. And crises just kept coming. After the first wave, which has come to be called the Black Death,…

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Pope Francis apologized for the harm done to First Nations peoples, but what does a pope’s apology mean?

Pope Francis apologized on April 1, 2022, to First Nations, Inuit and Métis delegations, acknowledging the harm done by residential schools in Canada and marking a crucial step in the church admitting its role in the abuse of Indigenous communities and children. Yet this apology, as important as it is,…

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‘Walking to justice’: Canada’s residential school survivors

Brandi Morin accompanied Indigenous survivors of Canada’s church-run residential schools as they went to the Vatican.

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The pope apologised for residential school abuses. What next?

Indigenous leaders in Canada say Catholic Church must take concrete action to support survivors and prevent more harm.

Al Jazeera

After Pope's apology, Canada's indigenous survivors want compensation, records

Pope Francis's long-awaited apology to Canada's indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and indigenous leaders said.

Reuters

Pope Francis's apology for residential schools doesn't acknowledge institutional responsibility

Pope Francis made a public statement today to the delegations of Indigenous people who met with him this week to discuss personal experiences in residential schools or their harmful legacies.

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Pope Francis' visit to Malta highlights the role of St. George Preca, an advocate for teaching the gospel

Pope Francis’ two-day visit to the tiny European country of Malta, a strongly Catholic island just south of Sicily, in April, 2022 put a spotlight on Malta’s complicated history and important contemporary concerns. Chief among these is the sharp increase in the number of asylum-seekers from Africa and the Middle…

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Pope apologises for Canadian schools scandal

ROME: Pope Francis apologised on Friday for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, telling Indigenous delegations at the Vatican it caused him “pain and shame”.

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Pope Francis apologises for ‘deplorable’ residential school abuse

Indigenous leaders welcome papal apology as ‘long overdue’, but say it is only a first step on the path to justice.

Al Jazeera

Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous peoples for abuse at schools in Canada

“For the deplorable conduct of those members of the Catholic Church, I ask forgiveness of the Lord,” he said.

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Pope apologises to Canadian indigenous for wrongs at residential schools

Pope Francis on Friday apologised to Canadian indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools that sought to erase their culture and where many children were abused.

Reuters

‘I needed to be here’: Indigenous delegates speak their truths

Al Jazeera speaks to Indigenous delegates meeting with Pope Francis to demand an apology for residential schools.

Al Jazeera

Canada indigenous seek dialogue with Vatican on repatriation of artefacts

Canadian indigenous leaders seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in notorious residential schools where children where abused also want to start a dialogue on the return of native artefacts held in the Vatican Museums.

Reuters

Dalit Christians to protest appointment of non-Dalit Bishop as Archbishop of Archdiocese of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry

Dioceses in T.N. are dominated by Vellalar, Udayar, Vanniyar, Nadar and fisherman communities, says Dalit Christian Liberation Movement State

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Indigenous delegates hold first talks with Pope Francis in Rome

Indigenous leaders are seeking apology from the pope for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s ‘residential schools’.

The Independent UK

Survivors of Canada’s residential schools to seek apology from Pope Francis

Indigenous delegation is demanding an apology for the church’s role in the government-funded schools

Al Jazeera

The Indigenous elder hoping for an apology from the pope

A survivor of Canada’s residential schools is on a mission to get the Catholic Church to apologise for its role in them.

The Independent UK

Canadian Indigenous meet with pope in hopes of apology

Indigenous leaders from Canada and survivors of the country’s notorious residential schools are meeting with Pope Francis in hopes of securing a papal apology for abuses committed against them by Catholic priests and school workers

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Canada's indigenous peoples seek papal apology at Vatican for residential schools

Canadian indigenous peoples meet Pope Francis this week to ask him to apologise for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools where children were abused and their culture denied.

The Independent UK

Canadian Indigenous leaders to meet pope over school abuse

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI met with a First Nations delegation from Canada and privately expressed regret over abuse suffered by Indigenous children at church-run boarding schools

The Conversation

As an Indigenous delegation prepares to visit the Vatican, it's worth revisiting Trudeau's 2017 papal gift of the Jesuit 'Relations'

A delegation of Indigenous people with the Assembly of First Nations, Métis National Council and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami soon travels to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican for events during the week of March 28.

The Independent UK

Archbishops unite to press UK government on visas for Ukrainian refugees

The all-Ireland primates of the Catholic Church and Church of Ireland came together to urge London to follow the lead of EU nations and waive visas.

Reuters

Spain's ombudsman set to lead probe into Catholic Church abuses

Spain's parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the creation of an independent commission led by the country's ombudsman to investigate suspected sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests.

The Independent UK

New Archbishop of Glasgow reaches out to survivors of abuse

Archbishop William Nolan stressed the Catholic Church must ‘change our ways’ to ensure the abuse scandal is not repeated.

Reuters

German priest guilty in 110 child sex abuse cases, handed 12-year sentence

A German Catholic priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse, a German court said on Friday, the latest in a string of cases that have shaken the German Catholic Church.

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