Pope pledges to return Indigenous artifacts to Canada – Nunatsiaq News
Nov 18, 2025
ITK ‘hopeful’ cultural items sent to Rome by missionaries a century ago will return ‘after too long’
After a century, Pope Leo XIV is preparing to return 62 Indigenous belongings back to the communities they came from.
Leo XIV announced the repatriation of the items Saturday during a meeting with Canadian bishops at the Apostolic Palace, the Pope’s residence in Vatican City.
The plan is to hand the items over to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, which is the national assembly of Catholic bishops in Canada. This group in turn has committed to delivering them to national Indigenous organizations.
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