Images of Native Americans Revealed During Vatican Fresco Cleaning

ICTMN Staff
April 29, 2013
During meticulous cleaning of a fresco titled “Resurrection” painted by Italian artist Pinturicchio on a wall in the Hall of Mysteries in the Borgia apartments, the Vatican declare...
Steven Newcomb

The Holy See’s Destructive Legacy of Deprimantur

Pope Francis—Jorge Mario Bergoglio—is 76 years old. He is the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope of our time not born in Europe....

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April 08, 2013
Steve Russell

Habemus Papam: Why We Should Care About the Selection of the New Pope

Why care about who heads a fantasy world of wealthy child molesters?...

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March 14, 2013

White House Delegation to Vatican Includes Mohawk Nun Who Brought Kateri Tekakwitha Miracle

ICTMN Staff
October 21, 2012
A Mohawk nun is part of a Presidential delegation attending the canonization mass of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope at the Vatican in Rome...

Turtle Island Indigenous Flock to Vatican to Witness Kateri Tekakwitha’s Canonization

ICTMN Staff
October 21, 2012
From Nova Scotia to British Columbia, and from Mohawk communities in the Northeast to the Yakama in Washington state, First Nations citizens and American Indians streamed to the Va...
Steven Newcomb

Kateri Tekawitha: Canonization in the Context of Spiritual Conquest

When Pope Benedict XVI canonizes Kateri Tekawitha (1656-1680) this month, she will be declared the Catholic Church’s first American Indian saint. What is the historical context of her beatification?...

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October 20, 2012

Canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha Draws at Least 2,000 Mohawks to Vatican Ceremony

Gale Courey Toensing
October 18, 2012
What is likely to be the largest delegation of Mohawk Indians ever to assemble in Rome will take place this weekend, October 20–21, for the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17t...

San Carlos Apache Made Annual Sacred Run Up Mount Graham This Summer, Protesting Desecration

Lee Allen
September 27, 2012
The annual weeklong San Carlos Apache Mount Graham Sacred Run—up from the Arizona desert reservation to the spirit people living on a mountain top more than 100 miles away—has ente...

Mixed Emotions Over Kateri Tekakwitha Being Named a Saint

ICTMN Staff
August 04, 2012
In early July, at a small powwow in Fonda, New York, the New York Times spoke with a number of people about their thoughts on Kateri Tekakwitha , the Mohawk woman who was born in 1...

More Victims Claiming Sexual Abuse by Montana Priests

Heather Steinberger
July 30, 2012
In January, Indian Country Today Media Network reported that a Yakima, Washington–based law firm had filed a 12-page legal complaint on behalf of a Northern Cheyenne tribal member ...

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