Given the close connections the Indigenous have to the land and to nature, Bruni said, Pope Francis also is likely to speak about care for the environment and climate change, particularly when he visits the Inuit in Iqaluit, Nunavit.
However, he said he is not certain that a statement will be completed before the papal trip ends or if the pope will speak about it while in Canada. The loss of the land, language, culture and spirituality of the Indigenous peoples of Canada and the foundation of the residential school system all can be traced to the doctrine, Indigenous leaders told reporters after their meetings with the pope.Īsked if the pope is expected to say something about the “doctrine of discovery” while in Canada, Bruni said, “a reflection is underway in the Holy See on the doctrine of discovery” and the study is nearing its conclusion. When representatives of Canada’s First Nations, and Inuit communities met Pope Francis at the Vatican in March and April, they asked him specifically for a formal repudiation of the “doctrine of discovery.” The phrase describes a collection of papal teachings, beginning in the 14th century, that encouraged explorers to colonize and claim the lands of any people who were not Christian, placing both the land and the people under the sovereignty of European Christian rulers. “These are some of the elements we may find in his words and gestures in the coming days,” Bruni said. The main themes likely to be treated by the pope, Bruni said, include the impact of the colonialism of the past and of new forms of colonialism on Indigenous communities today as well as the desire of the Catholic Church to walk with the Indigenous communities on a path of truth-seeking, healing and reconciliation. Many of the schools were run by Catholic religious orders and institutions. Much of the suffering occurred through forced attendance at residential schools where attempts were made to uproot them from their languages, cultures and spiritualities, and where many students suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Pope Francis himself described the trip as a “penitential pilgrimage” to express, in person and on Canadian soil, his “indignation, sorrow and shame for all that these people suffered,” Bruni said. The trip to Canada will be Pope Francis’ 37th foreign journey as pope and Canada will be the 56th country he has visited since his election in March 2013. He reiterated that that despite the warning for three months of bad weather towards March, there would be breaks in between hence the requirement to follow the warnings.Bruni also noted that more Canadians are likely to understand Spanish than Italian, and it would be easier to find translators from Spanish rather than Italian. The public and especially sea farers and travelling public must now carefully heed these warnings over the next week or so until the threat passes.
Those, especially in the islands, are being warned to expect rough seas, heavy rain and strengthening winds. We service small businesses operating out of the Quinault Reservation, the Olympic National Park area, and the surrounding communities. “Much more heat is still in waters northeast of New Ireland and Bougainville and the development of the current depression to a cyclone may likely drag those warm waters closer to PNG and Solomon island waters paving the way for continued bad weather causing flooding, heavy rain and igniting other hazards like landslides and destruction of property and gardens, Liz Prior, The Coastal Courier, is a member of the Quinault Indian Nation and specializes in delivery and pickup of parcels across the coast of the Olympic Peninsula. The PNG National Weather Service director Samuel Maiha, issued the warning yesterday saying this is due to a region of low pressure in Solomon island waters including Bougainville waters that is generating the strong winds (50-66km an hour) that may strengthen to 68-96km an hour as the system tracked south east towards Milne Bay waters.
Gale force wind warnings have being issued for all New Guinea Islands and eastern sea board of the New Guinea mainland from Alotau to Wewak and strong wind warnings for the remainder of the Country.