The Vatican has announced this morning that Pope Francis will go to Edmonton, Iqaluit and Quebec City during a visit to Canada from July 24th to 29th. Archbishop Richard Smith is the general co-ordinator of the visit for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. He says the 85-year-old pontiff’s mobility and health issues had to […]
An Indigenous delegation to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis to talk about reconciliation and healing has been rescheduled for early spring. The trip was put on hold a week before it was to take place in December because of uncertainty posed by the quickly spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19. A joint statement from […]
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican says Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help ongoing efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous peoples following revelations of the Catholic church’s role in the abuse and deaths of thousands of children. In a brief statement, the Vatican said the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited the pope […]