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• Analysis: Pope Francis apologized to the Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Was it enough?

  By Ricardo da Silva, S.J.| America Magazine Verified The excited and continuous beating of drums filled the circular, tented space at Ermineskin Cree Nation territory in Maskwacis, Alberta. Pope Francis waited—with a sense of gravity and solemnity clearly visible on his face—as he sat on stage for proceedings to begin at Muskwa Park, the site of one of Canada’s former Catholic Church-run residential schools, and a place that today is also a sacred meeting ground for the Cree Nation.

  By Ricardo da Silva, S.J. · America Magazine

  Jul. 25, 2022

• What do you do when a Gospel passage doesn’t sit right with you?

  By Ricardo da Silva, S.J.| America Magazine Verified Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription optionsA Reflection for the Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time“No disciple is above his teacher,no slave above his master. It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher,for the slave that he become like his master.”It is not often I read a Gospel passage and have a visceral disagreement with what is taught. Today, this happened. It is not that I disagree with the sum of what Jesus teaches in this passage.

  By Ricardo da Silva, S.J. · America Magazine

  Jul. 09, 2022

• Analysis: Pope Francis apologized to the Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Was it enough?

  By Ricardo da Silva, S.J.| America Magazine Verified The excited and continuous beating of drums filled the circular, tented space at Ermineskin Cree Nation territory in Maskwacis, Alberta. Pope Francis waited—with a sense of gravity and solemnity clearly visible on his face—as he sat on stage for proceedings to begin at Muskwa Park, the site of one of Canada’s former Catholic Church-run residential schools, and a place that today is also a sacred meeting ground for the Cree Nation.

  By Ricardo da Silva, S.J. · America Magazine

  Jul. 25, 2022

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