The effort is prompted by the recent discovery of more than 1,000 Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves near residential schools in Canada
CHICAGO (RNS) — Worshipers at a prayer service for truth and reconciliation in late August at St. Benedict Catholic Parish in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood prayed in English and in Ojibwe.
They prayed to the four directions, the smoke from a smoldering bundle of sage curling skyward in the church’s sanctuary. They prayed as each person made thei...