Kateri’s blessings followed Lydia Johnson from Wapato, Washington to Rome. Johnson, Yakama/Cayuse, and 29 others from the Yakima Diocese–including Bishop Joseph J...

Thousands of spectators, many wearing flowered lei, feathered headdresses and traditional attire, and others carrying banners and flags assembled at Piazza San Pietro as Pope Bened...

More than 2,000 Mohawks and other indigenous from Turtle Island gathered in Rome to witness the canonization today of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, who lived and died 300 years ago bu...

For those familiar with canonization, today’s ceremony may look different than those they’ve seen in the past...

Blessed Kateri 's tomb is found at St. Francis Xavier Mission in the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake, near Montreal, Quebec...

There are an estimated 680,000 American Indian Catholics in the U.S...

A life-size oil portrait of Kateri Tekakwitha will be featured at the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs’ October 21 mass and ceremony of her canonization...

To Lydia Johnson, the upcoming canonization of a Kanienkehaka, or Mohawk, woman who lived in the 1600s is affirmation that God has always had a relationship with the First Peoples ...