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A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome in July,...

An anguished First Peoples’ cry for recognition and reparation was the backdrop for Francis’s visit to Canada this summer.

This is a two-part fan interview about Uwem’s novel, New York, My Village (Norton, Nov 2021 & Parresia Nigeria, March 2022). His first...

Pope Francis' six-day pastoral visit to Canada was a great success. It wasn't until the news conference on the plane back to Rome that it beca...

While the "Doctrine of Discovery" can be rescinded, the call to evangelize and convert all nations cannot be.

Pope Francis's apology for the Catholic Church's role in Indigenous residential schools in Canada has raised questions about whether he would formally rescind the church's Doctrine of Discovery.

A delegation of Haudenosaunee is disappointed with the lack of opportunity to speak with Pope Francis during the papal visit to Quebec.

Ahead of their upcoming meeting with Pope Francis, Canadian indigenous leaders said that they will call on the Pope “ to repeal the Papal Bull of 1493 issued by his predecessor Pope Alexander and all other Papal Bulls that enshrined the doctrine of discovery that led to the genocide of Indigenous peoples in all regions of the world.

1493 papal bull casts long shadow over Church-Indigenous relations