The effort is motivated in part by a desire to make amends for the widespread abuses inflicted on Native youths at scores of Catholic-run boarding schools in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ruins of a Native American boarding school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation are pictured in Mission, South Dakota, Oct. 15, 2022. U.S. Catholic Bishops are slated to approve a new outreach plan ...

US Catholic Bishops Approve Outreach to Native Americans and Acknowledge Boarding School 'Traumas' LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. bishops on Friday approved new guidelines for ministering to ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Through praying, listening and seeking healing and reconciliation, the bishops, in the new draft, are committing to revitalizing their Native Catholic ministry.

The long in-the-works effort is intended to reinvigorate the ministry and assure Indigenous communities that they don’t need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one.

U.S. Catholic Bishops convening for a two-day meeting approved a new, multifaceted program of outreach to Native American Catholics.

U.S. Catholic Bishops are slated to approve a new outreach plan for Native American Catholics during a convention on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.

U.S. Catholic Bishops are slated to approve a new outreach plan for Native American Catholics during a convention on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.

U.S. Catholic Bishops are slated to approve a new outreach plan for Native American Catholics during a convention on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.