This is the best critical summary of the seventh bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith, John Hansen (Edmonton, 1967). The Northern clergy is also the chairman of the Catholic Indigenous Council, a body of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. In fact, their episcopal motto – ‘Veritas et Reconciliatio’ (‘Truth and Reconciliation’) – recalls the name of a commission established in 2008 as a response to the abuse of indigenous peoples through the residential school system. And he adds: “Our missionaries live in the communities in which they serve, many of them indigenous. We keep seeing many baptisms, but Smaller families do not participate as much in church life and so their children do not learn what the church has to teach,

Source: CBC News July 29, 2022 04:44 UTC