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Geopolitics and Papal Elections

If you have any doubt that geopolitics should play a role in papal elections, think of this: while choosing someone to step into the shoes of the poor fisherman from Galilee, the cardinals are also electing the head of a sovereign, juridical entity.

After 112 vandalized churches, Canada ends funding for research on Catholic school tombs

The global uproar surrounding unmarked graves began in 2021 when the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation claimed to have discovered 215 burial sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. However, the claim was based solely on ground-penetrating radar scans, which detect soil disturbances but do not confirm the presence of human remains. In the years since, the claim has been revised from “215 graves” to “200 potential burials,” with no excavations providing further clarity.