Launched Jan. 20, 2023, a new pre-med society at the Catholic school is preparing students to undertake careers in medicine, and to become leaders and active participants in shaping the future of their Navajo community.
Pre-med society at Navajo Catholic school creates future healing
Native peoples join Catholics in long search for boarding school details
Known as the Catholic Native Boarding School Accountability and Healing Project, or AHP, the effort is helping church institutions learn about their past and aiding Native American communities fill holes in their ancestral history.
First Nations delegation tells of hopes for upcoming meeting with pope
In one hour gathered in a room with Pope Francis, Dec. 20, 13 Assembly of First Nations delegates plan to lay down heavy burdens and raise up the hope of nations.
Bishops encourage cooperation to address Church’s past in tribal schools
Two U.S. bishops have urged their fellow prelates to cooperate with any requests they receive from the federal government for an investigation on alleged abuses at tribal schools operated by Church entities in the past.
Knights of Columbus documentary ‘Enduring Faith’ now available to all
“Enduring Faith: The Story of Native American Catholicism” offers “a missing piece to the greater story of Catholicism in North America.”
Bishops support investigation of former U.S. residential schools
In response to a late June announcement that the United States will be conducting an investigation of former federally funded boarding schools to search for graves of Native American children, a spokesperson for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said June 28 the bishops will “look for ways to be of assistance.”
Jason Adkins: Of monuments and imperfect men
We need to do a better job as a Church of telling our story — those of yesterday and of today — as well as reach out to those persons and communities who still struggle with the legacy of the sins and injustices of the past, whether Catholics committed them or not.