By Sid Hill and Betty Hill (Lyons)
Read More on APRILThe death of Pope Francis brings to a close a groundbreaking papacy not only for the Holy See, but for the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, as we call the Western Hemisphere.
As the first Pontiff from the so-called New World, he understood in a way his predecessors did not that the actions of the Church in the subjugation of Indigenous peoples in the wake of European conquest continue to reverberate today centuries after those first arrivals. With Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV who did pastoral work in Peru now named to replace him, we hope the new Pontiff can build on that greater understanding.
