God's Explorers

A Television Documentary by Susan Cardinal

God’s Explorers is the compelling history of Catholic missionary zeal among the native people of Northern Canada. Set against the North’s vast and rugged frontier, and dramatized by rare archival footage, God’s Explorers illuminates a controversial past that has left both the Catholic Church and the Dene people in agony. This is a story about how the missionary priests – the Oblates of Mary Immaculate – changed the North and how the North changed them.

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"The Church was loved by the people. The Church was powerful. But we hit the Titanic with modern society"

Bishop Denis Croteau, omi

Bishop of the Mackenzie Valley in "God's Explorers"

omi - Oblates of Mary Immaculate

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