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A teepee stands in front of Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario, Aug. 21, 2021. A new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery is expected soon. (CNS photo/Michael Swan, The Catholic Register)

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What is the Doctrine of Discovery and will Vatican statement affect it?

Michael Swan|Sep 20, 2022|4 Min Read

The Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council fears that at least five isolated Indigenous groups, similar to this one, are in imminent risk of being exterminated in the Amazon forest. (CNS photo/Gleilson Miranda, courtesy FUNAI)

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Amazon Catholic leaders: Isolated Indigenous peoples must be protected

Barbara J. Fraser and Lise Alves|Sep 13, 2022|6 Min Read

A demonstrator who is against the proposed new Chilean constitution shouts slogans as he attends a rally called "Long live the countryside" in Santiago, Chile, Aug. 26, 2022. The rally, ahead of the Sept. 4 constitutional referendum, was in defense of rural traditions. (CNS Photo/Ivan Alvarado , Reuters)

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Carmelite nuns' statement on Chilean Constitution vote provokes reaction

David Agren|Aug 30, 2022|4 Min Read

Guarani Indigenous people protest as they mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in São Paulo Aug. 9, 2022. The Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council said record violence last year against traditional peoples may have made 2021 "the worst year of the century" for Indigenous peoples. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters)

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Violence against Indigenous in Brazil surges, says Catholic council

Lise Alves|Aug 18, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leaves his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Aug. 3, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

At audience, pope reflects on 'penitential pilgrimage' to Canada

Junno Arocho Esteves|Aug 3, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Iqaluit, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, to Rome July 29, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring

Pope says residential-school policy was part of 'genocide' plan

Cindy Wooden|Jul 30, 2022|5 Min Read

Pope Francis leads a meeting with young people and elders outside the primary school in Iqaluit in the Canadian territory of Nunavut July 29, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

World

Pope brings apology to Arctic Indigenous communities

Cindy Wooden|Jul 29, 2022|5 Min Read

A man from the Shanenawa tribe observes an Indigenous dance during a 2019 festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon in Feijó, Brazil. A Brazilian Catholic official hopes the papal apology in Canada will encourage citizens to get involved to stop violence against Indigenous peoples. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)

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Papal apology reinforces Brazilian church's Indigenous work, leaders say

Lise Alves|Jul 29, 2022|3 Min Read

An Indigenous woman displays a cradleboard as Pope Francis meets with a delegation of Indigenous peoples in the archbishop's residence in Quebec City July 29, 2022. Indigenous leaders want Pope Francis to help them get information about the more than 4,000 children who died at Canada's residential schools and the thousands of others who never returned home from the schools. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Pope entrusts new relationship with Indigenous to three holy women

Cindy Wooden|Jul 29, 2022|4 Min Read

A man is comforted by an Indigenous leader during ceremonies in Maskwacis, Alberta, July 25, 2022, where Pope Francis apologized to Canada's native people on their land for the church's role in schools where Indigenous children were abused. (CNS photo/Adam Scotti, Prime Minister's Office handout via Reuters)

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Despite papal apology, some Native Americans find it hard to forgive

Barb Fraze|Jul 29, 2022|4 Min Read

Indigenous people hold a banner calling on Pope Francis to "rescind the doctrine," an apparent reference to the so-called Doctrine of Discovery, a collection of old papal teachings that encouraged explorers to colonize and claim the lands of any people who were not Christian, placing both the land and the people under the sovereignty of European Christian rulers. The incident occurred during a papal Mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec July 28, 2022. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

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Raising banner, protesters raise questions about 'Doctrine of Discovery'

Cindy Wooden|Jul 28, 2022|4 Min Read

Indigenous people hold a banner calling on Pope Francis to "rescind the doctrine," an apparent reference to the so-called doctrine of discovery, a collection of old papal teachings that encouraged explorers to colonize and claim the lands of any people who were not Christian, placing both the land and the people under the sovereignty of European Christian rulers. The incident occurred during a papal Mass at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec July 28, 2022. (CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

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Church cannot flee failures, but must reconcile with Indigenous, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Jul 28, 2022|4 Min Read

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