Canadian Indigenous group says more graves found (AP) A Canadian Indigenous group said Wednesday a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former Catholic Church-run residential school that housed Indigenous children taken from their families. The latest discovery of graves near Cranbrook, British Columbia follows reports of similar findings at two other such church-run schools, one of more than 600 unmarked graves and another of 215 bodies. Cranbrook is 524 miles (843 kilometers) east of Vancouver…
Pope to meet with Indigenous amid demands for apology (AP) Pope Francis has agreed to meet in December with Indigenous survivors of Canada’s notorious residential schools amid calls for a papal apology for the Catholic Church’s role in the abuse and deaths of thousands of native children…
More ‘suspicious’ fires at Catholic churches being investigated (CNA) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are investigating two more fires at Catholic churches in Canada as “suspicious,” after four churches on tribal lands burned down within one week…
Polish Catholic archbishop defends his election as mayor (CNA) A Polish Catholic archbishop sanctioned by the Vatican has defended his election as a village mayor.Archbishop Sławoj Leszek Głódź told Radio Zet on June 29 that his role as mayor of Piaski, in northeastern Poland, did not conflict with canon law. Canon 285 of the Code of Canon Law says that “clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.” But Głódź, who holds a doctorate in Eastern Catholic canon law, insisted that the canon did not apply to his new role…
One year later: Looking at Pittsburgh’s Black Catholic parish (OSV) A pandemic and an ongoing national reckoning with systemic racism made for a memorable and at times challenging first year for St. Benedict the Moor Church as a personal parish for Pittsburgh’s Black Catholic community. “Traditionally, an African-American cultural parish is very big on hospitality, very big on welcoming, very big on social interaction, and because of the restrictions under COVID, we really haven’t been to, in that sense, play to our greatest strengths as a parish,” said Father C. Matthew Hawkins…
Pope’s prayer intention for July: to become ‘architects of dialogue, friendship (Aleteia) The Pope Video has just been published with the intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Churchthrough thePope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. In this month of July, the Holy Father calls us to become “architects of dialogue and friendship.’ “I would like to invite everyone to go beyond their groups of friends and build social friendship, which is so necessary for living together well,” the Pope says in the video…
