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Saint Kateri and Native American Catholics

Clip: 11/13/2015 | 8m 41s

This saint has come to symbolize the Church's complicated history with indigenous people.

An estimated 25 percent of Native Americans are Catholic, but there are also longstanding tensions between the Catholic Church and some indigenous tribes.For some Native Americans, their complicated relationship with the Catholic Church is symbolized in its first Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha.

11/13/2015 | Rating NR

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