As part of its broader reckoning with the Catholic Church's colonial past, the Vatican in 2023 formally repudiated the ...

Pope Leo XIV gifted 62 Indigenous people's artifacts held for more than 100 years by the Vatican to leaders of the Canadian ...

In a historic moment in the long journey of reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Indigenous peoples of Canada, Pope Leo XIV formally handed ...

Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada’s Indigenous communities ...

The items’ return began as part of a process in which Pope Francis apologized to Indigenous people in 2022 for the church’s role in running residential schools.

The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts from its vast ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples from Canada, as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress ...

It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, its rows of soft white feathers fastened in place by a colorful, beaded headband after he apologized for the Catholic ...

Pope Francis has spoken of his "sorrow, indignation and shame" over the Catholic Church's role in the abuse of Canadian Indigenous children in residential schools, as he kicked off a weeklong ...

QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear on Wednesday that Pope Francis' apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country's church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, ...

Pope Leo appointed Bishop Stephen A. Hero as the archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, and Father Susai Jesu, OMI, as ...

At least 150,000 Indigenous children were part of the system. LONDON, ROME and TORONTO -- Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's brutal residential school ...