Pope Francis

President of the Metis community, Cassidy Caron, speaks to the media in St. Peter's Square after their meeting with Pope Francis. Photo / AP Indigenous leaders from Canada and survivors of the country's notorious residential schools met Pope Francis on Monday and told him of the abuses they suffered at…

Author of the article: VATICAN CITY — The threat of a global conflict spawned by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should convince everyone that the time has come for humanity to abolish war before it abolishes humanity, Pope Francis said on Sunday. “More than a month has passed since the invasion…

ROME — An air of anticipation filled Indigenous delegates as their long flight from Montreal landed in Rome early Sunday morning ahead of planned meetings with Pope Francis. ROME — An air of anticipation filled Indigenous delegates as their long flight from Montreal landed in Rome early Sunday morning ahead…

The leader of the national organization representing Inuit people says it will not be a celebratory occasion when he meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican next week as part of an Indigenous delegation. The leader of the national organization representing Inuit people says it will not be a celebratory…

ROME—Pope Francis celebrated a liturgy for peace between Russia and Ukraine, lamenting the “vicious war that has overtaken so many people and caused suffering to all...this cruel and senseless war that threatens our world,” in his most high-profile gesture yet to deplore the conflict while maintaining his neutrality. The ceremony…

Indigenous leaders and survivors of residential institutions are preparing to meet with Pope Francis in Vatican City next week, in what they hope is the first step towards the Pope travelling to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s brutal residential school system. The historic meeting, which…

Métis Nation of Ontario Region 4 Councillor Mitch Case will travel to Vatican as part of Indigenous delegation later this week Métis Nation of Ontario Region 4 Councillor Mitch Case will be part of a delegation representing the Métis National Council, Assembly of First Nations and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami that…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — War in Ukraine might have set back the clock on Vatican relations with the Russian Orthodox Church, but according to one expert on Catholic relations with Eastern churches a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, originally…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Diversity, communion and evangelization are at the heart of Pope Francis’ new apostolic constitution, “Praedicate Evangelium” or “Preach the Gospel,” enshrining the pope’s central principles in a long-sought reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the Curia. The long-awaited document was published with relatively little warning…

It was an emotional Sunday mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church of the First Peoples in Edmonton. “We will pray for the success of our delegation and the well-being of all who are going,” one parishioner said in a  prayer. The Edmonton church is a national parish for First Nations,…