Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 73 : Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)

Catholic proposal about identifying, documenting, commemorating and protecting residential school cemeteries

May 10, 2017

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)


CCCB in consultation with the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council and Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, is proposing that Catholic dioceses/eparchies, parishes, missions and organizations offer assistance on identifying, documenting, commemorating and protecting residential school cemeteries and related burial sites. Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle is the recently established Catholic coalition of Indigenous people, Bishops, clergy, lay movements and institutes of consecrated life, engaged in renewing and fostering relationships between the Catholic Church and Indigenous people in Canada.