Canada

In focus: World Day of the Sick, Vatican sports, Catholic Charities Mardi Gras celebration

“The love for people’s Catholic faith and their Catholic identity abounds in the meetings. It’s so present, and it underlies everything,” said Julia McStravog, a theologian and co-coordinator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ team for the continental phase of the synod.

In focus: World Food Day, letter to young people, Parkland school shooting sentence, legalizing marijuana use in Missouri

In the spotlight: Mass shooting in Thailand, Hurricane Ian relief, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome, has not been announced. But whenever it happens, it is likely to address core concerns of Indigenous people in Canada and in many other parts of the world.

In focus: Michigan abortion law, war reparations for Poland, youth rounded up in Eritrea

At Mass July 28 at the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Pope Francis spoke of “the scandal of evil and the Body of Christ wounded in the flesh of our Indigenous brothers and sisters.”

“Making good things happen doesn’t mean wrong things never happened. Wrongs are history. They endure. But actions, particularly actions that seek genuine forgiveness, can be signifiers of change, indeed, of progress.”