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Vaticans says decrees ‘did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples’

Pope Francis started his Canada trip by visiting the cemetery and chapel of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Maskwacis, Alberta, on July 25, 2022. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 30, 2023 / 04:03 am (CNA).Two Vatican departments issued a joint statement Thursday on the "doctrine of discovery" and the dignity and rights due indigenous peoples.The statement said the legal concept of the "doctrine of discovery" is "not part of the teaching of the Catholic Church" and his...

Vaticans says decrees ‘did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples’

In this article you can read about Roman Catholic Church claims about manipulations of Christianity for the sake of colonialists

The Vatican formally repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, which legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands, on Thursday after decades of demands from Indigenous people. Community leaders said the announcement, while welcome, is largely symbolic.

The Vatican has rejected the Doctrine of Discovery a year after Pope Francis met with First Nation, Meti and Inuit people from Canada, and apologized for the Catholic Churchs role in the residential school system. The 15th-century doctrine expressed the idea that lands being coloniz...

Documents had been 'manipulated' for political purposes by colonial powers, said Vatican

The USCCB and CCCB, with the encouragement of the Vatican, are ‘exploring’ the establishment of an academic symposium for continued dialogue between indigenou...

A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples” and have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith.

The “Doctrine of Discovery” is the leveraging of the idea of discovery to argue for and put into law a claim on and right to indigenous lands. It has no current and actively sustained legal connection.