Catholic church

A Catholic priest's sexual abuse of Inuit children decades ago in Igloolik, Nvt., transformed a once friendly and trusting hamlet into a place marred by anger and addiction, court heard Thursday.

Buying the private property will ensure the integrity of the ongoing investigation and allow the First Nation to consider how to honour both the children who disappeared and those who were taken from their families to attend the school, Chief Willie Sellars says.

Before the sun broke through the sky on Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way.

Two weeks ago, the Vatican released a statement denouncing the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a series of documents that Canadian governments have used to justify colonization for centuries. Now what happens?

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on what the Doctrine of Discovery has meant for Christians, Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.

A family member of residential school survivors says the minimum $55-million price tag for Pope’ visit to Canada last year feels like another slap in the face for Indigenous people.

Canada's new special representative on combating Islamophobia has apologized for words that hurt Quebecers after leaders in that province called for her resignation.

A charitable organization founded by the late Jean Vanier issued a report on Monday, January 30, 2023, saying the Canadian sexually abused at least 25 women during his decades with the group.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair on the 2015 secret deal between the Harper government and Catholic leaders to discharge the church from its legal obligation to raise $25M for residential school survivors.

The Mi'kmaq's relationship to Catholicism stretches back over 400 years, but there is a growing shift away from the church. And the Pope's apology is unlikely to stem that flow.

Canada agreed to "forever discharge" Catholic entities from their promise to raise $25 million for residential school survivors and also picked up their legal bill, a final release document shows.

After Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was accused by a woman of sexual assault in a class-action lawsuit introduced this week, more women have come forward with similar allegations against members of the province's Catholic Church.

A poll suggests more than half of Canadians viewed the recent visit by Pope Francis and his apology for abuses at residential schools as a step toward reconciliation.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says a lack of action would be the worst thing to follow an apology for residential schools as Pope Francis reflects on his historic journey to Canada.

A New Democrat member of Parliament said on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, she hopes all of her colleagues will recognize the residential schools system as genocide, now that Pope Francis has used the term.