Lakota and Catholic: Jesuit education on the Pine Ridge Reservation

“My hope is that we can learn that we can be indigenous and all
these other things: Catholic, worldly, a diplomat, a scientist,
etc. My hope is that being indigenous is not limited,” said Maka
Clifford in the pages of America last year. Maka is the director of
curriculum and assessment at the Red Cloud Indian School, a
Catholic school led by the Jesuits and the Lakota people. Maka was
born on the Pine Ridge Reservation and graduated from Red Cloud in
2005. After studying in California, New York and Japan, Maka
realized his calling to be involved in indigenous studies and human
rights. He returned to Red Cloud in 2013. We talk to Maka about
what it means to be a Lakota Catholic, the controversial history of
Jesuit-run and boarding schools, Lakota spirituality and teaching
indigenous students in 2018.   Last week, the editors of
America stated that the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the
Supreme Court should be withdrawn. We discuss the magazine’s
previous support of the nomination and why the editors decided to
withdraw it.   In sexual abuse news, Pope Francis laicizes
Chile’s Fernando Karadima. “The Better Church Governance Group” is
a new organization founded by wealthy Catholics to investigate the
College of Cardinals. And for the feast of St. Francis, we have a
story about a dog that completes the Camino de Santiago.   As
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Editors: It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn
Pope Francis defrocks Chilean priest at center of sexual abuse
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A dog that has completed the Camino de Santiago comes to Rome
Jewish husband and wife to be first married couple knighted by the
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