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

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

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 ...

In a historic moment in the long journey of reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Indigenous peoples of Canada, ...

An Inuit kayak, war clubs and masks were among the items handed over to Canadian bishops, who vowed to transfer them to ...

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, ...

A historic collection of Indigenous artifacts held by Vatican Museums for a century was handed back to Indigenous groups ...

On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV donated 62 pieces from the ethnological collections of the Vatican Museums to the Canadian bishops.

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

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