On April 17, the Church in Canada celebrates the life and witness of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, “the first native North American to be raised to the glory of the altars”. She was canonized by Benedict XVI on October 21, 2012, in Rome. – CCCB
Link to the biography of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (PDF)
Link to catechetical resources in English
Link to the St. Francis Xavier Mission in Kahnawake
Seeds of Faith blog St. Kateri Tekakwitha by Jan Bentham (CARFLEO Secretary)
St. Kateri Tekakwitha Conservation Center
Long before today’s environmental movement, the Bible and Tradition of the Catholic Church taught us to be stewards of God’s creation with love and wisdom.
The mission of the Conservation Center is to promote ecology, environmental justice, sustainable and authentic development, and stewardship of the Earth, in light of sacred Scripture and the Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.
Their website features an extensive collection of writings about ecology and the environment from a variety of Catholic sources.
[…] Pope Francis later produced the great encyclical Laudato Si’. Even earlier we see St. Francis of Assisi who was the patron of ecology as was St. Kateri Tekakwitha. […]