Vatican to Return Indigenous Cultural Items to Canada Taken a Century Ago

Dozen of pieces used in a 1925 exhibition, including a whale-hunting kayak, will be returned to Canada early next month.

Vatican returns 62 Indigenous artifacts

The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts from its vast ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples from Canada, as part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas.

Vatican returns to Canada artefacts connected to Indigenous people

Catholic missionaries sent the artefacts to Rome on the occasion of a 1925 exhibition held by Pope Pius XI that displayed more than 100,000 objects.
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Vatican-Set Movie Based on Pope John Paul II’s Life and Path to Sainthood Set to Begin Filming in 2026

The title character, an American priest asked by the Vatican to investigate the sanctification of the pontiff who was proclaimed a saint in 2014, will be played by actor Mark Ruffalo.
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